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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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, ...
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    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 ...
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    How to Improve National Math Scores

    The New York Times – Room for Debate Blog, October 15, 2009 Only 39 percent of fourth graders and 34 percent of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level on the nationwide math test given this spring. With little improvement over the past six years, it’s seems unlikely ...
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    Education Reform is Everyone’s Problem

    The National Education Association wants to reform hiring practices to help move highly qualified teachers into the classrooms of troubled schools. This is a laudable effort, but the problems in America’s public schools extend far beyond poor areas. Indeed, many middle-class schools are failing to educate their students. The NEA ...
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    Against the odds

    Principal’s success at poor school captures national attention VICTORVILLE • When Linda Mikels took the helm as principal of Sixth Street Prep eight years ago, the elementary school near Old Town had seen its test scores sink three straight years. It’d be easy to blame poor performance on the demographics ...
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    Duncan Wrong Again on School Choice

    Freedom Politics, October 6, 2009 As grassroots momentum builds to save the Washington, DC school-choice voucher program from the congressional chopping block, U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan continues to dig in his heels in opposition. His comments betray a fundamental misunderstanding of how the education market works and what parents ...
    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 ...
    Commentary

    How to Improve National Math Scores

    The New York Times – Room for Debate Blog, October 15, 2009 Only 39 percent of fourth graders and 34 percent of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level on the nationwide math test given this spring. With little improvement over the past six years, it’s seems unlikely ...
    Commentary

    Education Reform is Everyone’s Problem

    The National Education Association wants to reform hiring practices to help move highly qualified teachers into the classrooms of troubled schools. This is a laudable effort, but the problems in America’s public schools extend far beyond poor areas. Indeed, many middle-class schools are failing to educate their students. The NEA ...
    Commentary

    Against the odds

    Principal’s success at poor school captures national attention VICTORVILLE • When Linda Mikels took the helm as principal of Sixth Street Prep eight years ago, the elementary school near Old Town had seen its test scores sink three straight years. It’d be easy to blame poor performance on the demographics ...
    Commentary

    Duncan Wrong Again on School Choice

    Freedom Politics, October 6, 2009 As grassroots momentum builds to save the Washington, DC school-choice voucher program from the congressional chopping block, U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan continues to dig in his heels in opposition. His comments betray a fundamental misunderstanding of how the education market works and what parents ...
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