Education
Education
Obama-Ed “Reforms” are Old News
What the president plans to do, however, is neither exciting, nor innovative. Put simply, Obama-ed is simply common sense with a much a higher price tag. Basically the president explained to these Madison middle schoolers that he wants better standards, better teachers, better data to help identify the better teachers, ...
Commentary
L.A. Loosens Reins on School Administration
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has decided to allow outside groups, including for-profit charter school organizations, to run one-third of the district’s schools and possibly open 50 new ones of their own creation. As a result, more than 60,000 Los Angeles students could be getting more opportunities for ...
Commentary
North Carolina Group Sues for Equal Funding for Charters
School choice advocates have brought a lawsuit in North Carolina seeking funding equity in public education. The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law filed a complaint on September 21 on behalf of seven charter schools challenging the state’s funding formula, seeking the ability to request money from the state in ...
Commentary
Race To The Top is About More Than Money
SACRAMENTO – California is scrambling for federal Race to the Top grants but there is more at stake than money according to state Sen. Gloria Romero, who held an informational hearing on October 14. “I’m open to having discussions on accountability and what works,” said Sen. Romero in the hearing. ...
Commentary
The U.S. Army honors PRI’s Lance T. Izumi
The U.S. Army honors PRI’s Lance T. Izumi with awards for his parachute jump with the Army’s Golden Knights high-performance jump team. The event was held at the Army’s Southern California Advisory Board meeting on October 23rd in Fullerton. The two officers standing next to Lance are Lieutenant Colonel Miguel ...
Commentary
Faulty data on unruly students stuns Moreno Valley school district
Administrators say the expulsion and suspension data that Moreno Valley Unified School District submitted last June to the state is entirely incorrect, and that’s why many of its schools seemed to fare poorly in a just-released safety report by a think tank. Earlier this week, the Sacramento-based Pacific Research Institute ...
Commentary
San Mateo County schools show up on “unsafe” lists
A number of Bay Area schools — including several in San Mateo County — have struggled with high levels of safety-related problems such as disruptive behavior, student alcohol use and vandalism, according to a study released earlier this week. The study by the San Francisco-based think tank Pacific Research Institute ...
Crime
Time for Parents to Overthrow School Safety “Czars”
Similarly The Detroit News reported numerous shootings in or around the city’s public schools this year, acknowledging that “for each high-profile shooting, there are hundreds of assaults and other violent crimes on school campuses that go unreported each year.” Furthermore, the Detroit Police Department reported that they have responded to ...
Education
Not As Safe As You Think
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, found that ninety percent of California students currently attend schools with reported incidents of violence, physical injuries or weapons that resulted in disciplinary actions. Not as Safe as You Think, by Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D., and Evelyn Stacey, ...
Commentary
New Study Finds State Definition of Dangerous Schools is a Flawed Measure of School Safety
Note: The 2007-08 data used for the appendix tables was based on data supplied directly by the California Department of Education in early 2009. The authors are currently reviewing the appendices against publicly reported school level data. San Francisco — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based ...
Obama-Ed “Reforms” are Old News
What the president plans to do, however, is neither exciting, nor innovative. Put simply, Obama-ed is simply common sense with a much a higher price tag. Basically the president explained to these Madison middle schoolers that he wants better standards, better teachers, better data to help identify the better teachers, ...
L.A. Loosens Reins on School Administration
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has decided to allow outside groups, including for-profit charter school organizations, to run one-third of the district’s schools and possibly open 50 new ones of their own creation. As a result, more than 60,000 Los Angeles students could be getting more opportunities for ...
North Carolina Group Sues for Equal Funding for Charters
School choice advocates have brought a lawsuit in North Carolina seeking funding equity in public education. The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law filed a complaint on September 21 on behalf of seven charter schools challenging the state’s funding formula, seeking the ability to request money from the state in ...
Race To The Top is About More Than Money
SACRAMENTO – California is scrambling for federal Race to the Top grants but there is more at stake than money according to state Sen. Gloria Romero, who held an informational hearing on October 14. “I’m open to having discussions on accountability and what works,” said Sen. Romero in the hearing. ...
The U.S. Army honors PRI’s Lance T. Izumi
The U.S. Army honors PRI’s Lance T. Izumi with awards for his parachute jump with the Army’s Golden Knights high-performance jump team. The event was held at the Army’s Southern California Advisory Board meeting on October 23rd in Fullerton. The two officers standing next to Lance are Lieutenant Colonel Miguel ...
Faulty data on unruly students stuns Moreno Valley school district
Administrators say the expulsion and suspension data that Moreno Valley Unified School District submitted last June to the state is entirely incorrect, and that’s why many of its schools seemed to fare poorly in a just-released safety report by a think tank. Earlier this week, the Sacramento-based Pacific Research Institute ...
San Mateo County schools show up on “unsafe” lists
A number of Bay Area schools — including several in San Mateo County — have struggled with high levels of safety-related problems such as disruptive behavior, student alcohol use and vandalism, according to a study released earlier this week. The study by the San Francisco-based think tank Pacific Research Institute ...
Time for Parents to Overthrow School Safety “Czars”
Similarly The Detroit News reported numerous shootings in or around the city’s public schools this year, acknowledging that “for each high-profile shooting, there are hundreds of assaults and other violent crimes on school campuses that go unreported each year.” Furthermore, the Detroit Police Department reported that they have responded to ...
Not As Safe As You Think
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, found that ninety percent of California students currently attend schools with reported incidents of violence, physical injuries or weapons that resulted in disciplinary actions. Not as Safe as You Think, by Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D., and Evelyn Stacey, ...
New Study Finds State Definition of Dangerous Schools is a Flawed Measure of School Safety
Note: The 2007-08 data used for the appendix tables was based on data supplied directly by the California Department of Education in early 2009. The authors are currently reviewing the appendices against publicly reported school level data. San Francisco — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based ...
