Education

Charter Schools

Biased Classroom Politics: Another Reason for School Choices

During the week of January 22-28, we mark National School Choice Week and efforts to empower parents to choose the best public or private education option for their children. For years, school choice efforts have mainly focused on the poor performance of traditional public schools. Growing political bias in the ...
California

Biased Classroom Politics: Reason For School Choice

During the week of January 22-28, we mark National School Choice Week and efforts to empower parents to choose the best public or private education option for their children. For years, school choice efforts have mainly focused on the poor performance of traditional public schools. Growing political bias in the ...
Blended Learning

Can Technology Help Students and Save Education in California?

Click here to watch a video of PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom. Much of the debate in education over the last few years has centered around issues of standards, curricula and testing. While very important, these issues should not obscure the possibilities ...
Blended Learning

The Future Is Now – Ed Tech And Blended Learning

Watch PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom – “The Future is Now.” The panel is moderated by PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education. Panelists include Paul Escala of Grimmway Academy, Senate Republican Leader ...
Business & Economics

Impact Magazine — Winter 2016

Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that big federal government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan ...
Commentary

Choice Media Education Story of the Day

Watch PRI’s Lance Izumi present the Choice Media education story of the day. Chicago Teachers Union sets Oct. 11 strike date (Chicago Tribune)
Charter Schools

Donald Trump Says He Will Be “Biggest Cheerleader” for School Choice

Republican nominee Donald Trump says that, if elected president, he will make school choice the center of his education plan and will use $20 billion to establish a block grant to fund school choice for children living in low-income areas. Public schools are “our government-run monopoly” that has “trapped millions ...
Charter Schools

Black Lives Matter vs. Charter Schools

The Movement for Black Lives Matter coalition has recently issued education-policy “demands” that demonstrate that not all the lives of black children matter to the group. In the preamble of the BLM demands, the group uses language that seems drawn straight from teacher-union talking points. BLM talks about “an international ...
Commentary

The Friedrichs Case: Why the Supreme Court pick means so much

In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump emphasized once again that the issue of replacing late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with someone of similar conservative judicial philosophy “will be one of the most important decided by this election.” There is no better example of ...
California

#Charterswork School: Profile Clayton Valley Charter High School

Clayton Valley Charter High School (CVCHS) is an exemplar of how charter school conversion can rejuvenate a suffering public school. Founded in 1958 as Clayton Valley High School, it served part of Concord and nearby Clayton as a traditional public high school for more than 50 years. The idea to ...
Charter Schools

Biased Classroom Politics: Another Reason for School Choices

During the week of January 22-28, we mark National School Choice Week and efforts to empower parents to choose the best public or private education option for their children. For years, school choice efforts have mainly focused on the poor performance of traditional public schools. Growing political bias in the ...
California

Biased Classroom Politics: Reason For School Choice

During the week of January 22-28, we mark National School Choice Week and efforts to empower parents to choose the best public or private education option for their children. For years, school choice efforts have mainly focused on the poor performance of traditional public schools. Growing political bias in the ...
Blended Learning

Can Technology Help Students and Save Education in California?

Click here to watch a video of PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom. Much of the debate in education over the last few years has centered around issues of standards, curricula and testing. While very important, these issues should not obscure the possibilities ...
Blended Learning

The Future Is Now – Ed Tech And Blended Learning

Watch PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom – “The Future is Now.” The panel is moderated by PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education. Panelists include Paul Escala of Grimmway Academy, Senate Republican Leader ...
Business & Economics

Impact Magazine — Winter 2016

Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that big federal government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan ...
Commentary

Choice Media Education Story of the Day

Watch PRI’s Lance Izumi present the Choice Media education story of the day. Chicago Teachers Union sets Oct. 11 strike date (Chicago Tribune)
Charter Schools

Donald Trump Says He Will Be “Biggest Cheerleader” for School Choice

Republican nominee Donald Trump says that, if elected president, he will make school choice the center of his education plan and will use $20 billion to establish a block grant to fund school choice for children living in low-income areas. Public schools are “our government-run monopoly” that has “trapped millions ...
Charter Schools

Black Lives Matter vs. Charter Schools

The Movement for Black Lives Matter coalition has recently issued education-policy “demands” that demonstrate that not all the lives of black children matter to the group. In the preamble of the BLM demands, the group uses language that seems drawn straight from teacher-union talking points. BLM talks about “an international ...
Commentary

The Friedrichs Case: Why the Supreme Court pick means so much

In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump emphasized once again that the issue of replacing late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with someone of similar conservative judicial philosophy “will be one of the most important decided by this election.” There is no better example of ...
California

#Charterswork School: Profile Clayton Valley Charter High School

Clayton Valley Charter High School (CVCHS) is an exemplar of how charter school conversion can rejuvenate a suffering public school. Founded in 1958 as Clayton Valley High School, it served part of Concord and nearby Clayton as a traditional public high school for more than 50 years. The idea to ...
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