Education
Commentary
Capistrano Unified Recall Leader Weighs In On Film, Is Mum About Excluded Journalist
As if to demonstrate why anyone would be interested in a movie about school districts, Capistrano Unified delivered some of its trademark drama at last night’s premier of Not As Good As You Think (which we previewed here). Capistrano Dispatch editor Jonathan Volzke apparently wasn’t invited to the event — ...
Commentary
One Last Hope for DC Voucher Program
In early May, President Obama presented a revised 2010 budget that included $12.2 million for the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. The proposal represented a “compromise” solution to DC’s embattled voucher program, but is hardly a gain for low-income students and their parents. The DC voucher plan currently awards up to ...
Commentary
Film: Capistrano district poster child for ‘broken’ school system
New documentary showcases the problems of one O.C. school district. The Capistrano Unified School District is portrayed in a new, 49-minute documentary film as a case study in what is wrong with the American public school system and how politics, misplaced priorities and lack of oversight can derail what should ...
Commentary
Washington D.C. Premiere of “Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School”
The Washington DC Premiere of “Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School” at the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Auditorium. PRI’s Lance T. Izumi, Executive Producer and Author, and Director Nick Tucker answer questions in a panel discussion. Our national conversation about education reform often focuses ...
Education
CA School Finance Center mentioned on CA State Senator Huff Capital Weekly Report
California State Senator Bob Huff mentioned the California School Finance Center database developed by PRI and Just for the Kids in his weekly message to constituents. Senator Huff comments on legislative activities for the Week of May 11th. The California School Finance Center database developed by PRI and Just for ...
Commentary
Does Universal Preschool Improve Learning? Lessons from Georgia and Oklahoma
Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool–preschool for all.[1] The President’s early education plan, for which he has advocated spending up to $10 billion annually in federal expenditures, encourages states to provide preschool for every child.[2] As President, Obama reinforced his ...
Commentary
Changing the way our schools are financed
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10, 2009 California’s fiscal outlook continues to worsen. Concern is now mounting over the impact the state’s budget deficit will have on education funding. The California Teachers Association, along with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. In ...
Commentary
Tax-credit scholarships offer school choice
The Sacramento Bee (CA), May 7, 2009 How many parents would send their child to a better school if they could? A boy I know was going to school in a gang-infested neighborhood, kept getting in trouble and was suspended several times. His parents wanted to send him to a ...
Commentary
Failing D.C. Students
The Gadfly, May 6, 2009 The Washington, D.C. public school system is among the nation’s worst. In fact, it’s relatively uncontroversial to say that public schools in D.C. are the worst in the nation—despite the District spending over $15,000 per pupil in its public school system, by far the highest ...
Charter Schools
Lessons from California’s Charter Schools of the Year
The Oakland Charter Academy in northern California and the Our Community Charter School in the San Fernando Valley have won the Hart Vision “Charter School of the Year” award from the California Charter Schools Association. “These exemplary charter schools should be studied and their best practices replicated in the broader ...
Capistrano Unified Recall Leader Weighs In On Film, Is Mum About Excluded Journalist
As if to demonstrate why anyone would be interested in a movie about school districts, Capistrano Unified delivered some of its trademark drama at last night’s premier of Not As Good As You Think (which we previewed here). Capistrano Dispatch editor Jonathan Volzke apparently wasn’t invited to the event — ...
One Last Hope for DC Voucher Program
In early May, President Obama presented a revised 2010 budget that included $12.2 million for the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. The proposal represented a “compromise” solution to DC’s embattled voucher program, but is hardly a gain for low-income students and their parents. The DC voucher plan currently awards up to ...
Film: Capistrano district poster child for ‘broken’ school system
New documentary showcases the problems of one O.C. school district. The Capistrano Unified School District is portrayed in a new, 49-minute documentary film as a case study in what is wrong with the American public school system and how politics, misplaced priorities and lack of oversight can derail what should ...
Washington D.C. Premiere of “Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School”
The Washington DC Premiere of “Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School” at the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Auditorium. PRI’s Lance T. Izumi, Executive Producer and Author, and Director Nick Tucker answer questions in a panel discussion. Our national conversation about education reform often focuses ...
CA School Finance Center mentioned on CA State Senator Huff Capital Weekly Report
California State Senator Bob Huff mentioned the California School Finance Center database developed by PRI and Just for the Kids in his weekly message to constituents. Senator Huff comments on legislative activities for the Week of May 11th. The California School Finance Center database developed by PRI and Just for ...
Does Universal Preschool Improve Learning? Lessons from Georgia and Oklahoma
Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool–preschool for all.[1] The President’s early education plan, for which he has advocated spending up to $10 billion annually in federal expenditures, encourages states to provide preschool for every child.[2] As President, Obama reinforced his ...
Changing the way our schools are financed
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10, 2009 California’s fiscal outlook continues to worsen. Concern is now mounting over the impact the state’s budget deficit will have on education funding. The California Teachers Association, along with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. In ...
Tax-credit scholarships offer school choice
The Sacramento Bee (CA), May 7, 2009 How many parents would send their child to a better school if they could? A boy I know was going to school in a gang-infested neighborhood, kept getting in trouble and was suspended several times. His parents wanted to send him to a ...
Failing D.C. Students
The Gadfly, May 6, 2009 The Washington, D.C. public school system is among the nation’s worst. In fact, it’s relatively uncontroversial to say that public schools in D.C. are the worst in the nation—despite the District spending over $15,000 per pupil in its public school system, by far the highest ...
Lessons from California’s Charter Schools of the Year
The Oakland Charter Academy in northern California and the Our Community Charter School in the San Fernando Valley have won the Hart Vision “Charter School of the Year” award from the California Charter Schools Association. “These exemplary charter schools should be studied and their best practices replicated in the broader ...
