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Honoring Our Veterans
Veterans Day, which we celebrated on November 11th, is not only a national holiday where we honor those men and women who served in our armed forces, but it is also an intensely personal day where family and friends remember their loved ones who wore the uniform. My father is ...
Commentary
Homeless Kids – Federal Problems Block Local Solutions
Homelessness among children is more widespread than imagined, and the many problems faced by these children, from instability to personal safety, seriously impact their education. Yet federal housing policies undercut the ability of local organizations to implement proven solutions. A recent study by Schoolhouse Washington, an education research initiative in ...
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The Race for CA’s Top Ed Official: A Study in Contrasts
While much of the media is focused on which party will control Congress, one of the most important races in California is for state superintendent of public instruction, the state’s top education official. In one corner is education reformer Marshall Tuck, who lost a close race four years ago to ...
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Teachers, Rock Stars, and Millionaires, Oh yes!
John Cox, GOP candidate for California’s gubernatorial race, made headlines the other day when he said that he’d like to see teachers paid like “rock stars and baseball players.” Later in a statement, he sheepishly walked it back: “Of course our teachers will never approach the pay of a Beyoncé ...
Education
Lance Izumi in Sacramento Bee: Should Teachers Be Paid Like Rock Stars?
Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, was asked by the Sacramento Bee for his comments on a statement by California gubernatorial candidate John Cox that teacher should be “paid like rock stars and baseball players.” Read his comments below and click ...
Education
Rebecca Friedrichs – Janus Before Janus
Rebecca Friedrichs of For Kids and Country joins us to talk about the victory for worker freedom in the Janus decision, and her experiences as lead plaintiff in a prior case that ended in a 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court. We discuss what’s next for disaffected union members after ...
Business & Economics
Harry Crocker – What Would Have Happened if George Armstrong Custer Had Lived?
Regnery Publishing Vice President and Executive Editor Harry Crocker joins us to talk about his new book Armstrong, which imagines what would have if George Armstrong Custer survived the Battle of Little Big Horn. We discuss his inspiration for writing the book, the challenges faced today by the conservative book ...
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What We’re Watching – September 21
Tim Anaya – Boy Asks President Trump for a Hug Our friends in North and South Carolina are busy today getting back on track in the aftermath of last week’s destructive Hurricane Florence. The aftermath of this devastating storm was not all tragic. President Trump and several Cabinet officials toured ...
School Choice
What We’re Watching – September 14
Tim Anaya – Dave Rubin interviews Peter Thiel Watch this fascinating interview with past PRI gala speaker Peter Thiel. In a wide-ranging discussion (more than 2 hours long!) with Dave Rubin on “The Rubin Report,” Thiel discusses his work creating PayPal and being the first outside investor in Facebook, his ...
Education
Lance Izumi Discusses Student Free Speech and Washington State Teacher Strikes on Lars Larson Show
Listen to Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education Lance Izumi discuss the ongoing Washington state teacher strikes, and his recent op-ed on the victory of an Oregon student in a student free speech case on “The Lars Larson Show”. The interview begins at the ...
Honoring Our Veterans
Veterans Day, which we celebrated on November 11th, is not only a national holiday where we honor those men and women who served in our armed forces, but it is also an intensely personal day where family and friends remember their loved ones who wore the uniform. My father is ...
Homeless Kids – Federal Problems Block Local Solutions
Homelessness among children is more widespread than imagined, and the many problems faced by these children, from instability to personal safety, seriously impact their education. Yet federal housing policies undercut the ability of local organizations to implement proven solutions. A recent study by Schoolhouse Washington, an education research initiative in ...
The Race for CA’s Top Ed Official: A Study in Contrasts
While much of the media is focused on which party will control Congress, one of the most important races in California is for state superintendent of public instruction, the state’s top education official. In one corner is education reformer Marshall Tuck, who lost a close race four years ago to ...
Teachers, Rock Stars, and Millionaires, Oh yes!
John Cox, GOP candidate for California’s gubernatorial race, made headlines the other day when he said that he’d like to see teachers paid like “rock stars and baseball players.” Later in a statement, he sheepishly walked it back: “Of course our teachers will never approach the pay of a Beyoncé ...
Lance Izumi in Sacramento Bee: Should Teachers Be Paid Like Rock Stars?
Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, was asked by the Sacramento Bee for his comments on a statement by California gubernatorial candidate John Cox that teacher should be “paid like rock stars and baseball players.” Read his comments below and click ...
Rebecca Friedrichs – Janus Before Janus
Rebecca Friedrichs of For Kids and Country joins us to talk about the victory for worker freedom in the Janus decision, and her experiences as lead plaintiff in a prior case that ended in a 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court. We discuss what’s next for disaffected union members after ...
Harry Crocker – What Would Have Happened if George Armstrong Custer Had Lived?
Regnery Publishing Vice President and Executive Editor Harry Crocker joins us to talk about his new book Armstrong, which imagines what would have if George Armstrong Custer survived the Battle of Little Big Horn. We discuss his inspiration for writing the book, the challenges faced today by the conservative book ...
What We’re Watching – September 21
Tim Anaya – Boy Asks President Trump for a Hug Our friends in North and South Carolina are busy today getting back on track in the aftermath of last week’s destructive Hurricane Florence. The aftermath of this devastating storm was not all tragic. President Trump and several Cabinet officials toured ...
What We’re Watching – September 14
Tim Anaya – Dave Rubin interviews Peter Thiel Watch this fascinating interview with past PRI gala speaker Peter Thiel. In a wide-ranging discussion (more than 2 hours long!) with Dave Rubin on “The Rubin Report,” Thiel discusses his work creating PayPal and being the first outside investor in Facebook, his ...
Lance Izumi Discusses Student Free Speech and Washington State Teacher Strikes on Lars Larson Show
Listen to Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education Lance Izumi discuss the ongoing Washington state teacher strikes, and his recent op-ed on the victory of an Oregon student in a student free speech case on “The Lars Larson Show”. The interview begins at the ...
