Education
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More educating with less money
Orange County Register, March 27, 2009 Flash Report, March 29, 2009 CA Forward, March 27, 2009 Award-winning charter schools show public schools how to succeed. The Oakland Charter Academy and the Our Community Charter School in the San Fernando Valley have won the Hart Vision “Charter School of the Year” ...
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Obama’s Education “Reforms”
In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shill for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details. ...
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School choice for more than just Obama, Gates
Bill Gates recently released his annual letter on the state of his foundation. It turns out that he, President Obama and Chicago school chief Arne Duncan, the president’s pick for education secretary, have something in common. All say that the key experience in their life was their attendance at their ...
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges San Francisco (March 19, 2009) – On March 17th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appointed Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies and senior director at the Pacific Research Institute, to the Board of Governors ...
Agriculture
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
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Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
Heritage Foundation “Foundry” Blog, March 16, 2009 A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on ...
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Math lesson
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), March 15, 2009 Jack O’Connell, California’s superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week’s latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would ...
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Sweden’s Choice
Why the Obama administration should look to Europe for a school voucher program that works. Click here to see full screen of video.
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How California Can Be a K-12 Leader Again
SACRAMENTO—Heavy hitters in education reform convened here Monday for mayor Kevin Johnson’s Education Summit. The event was a microcosm of changes afoot nationwide and packed a powerful message for California. The summit had three overarching goals: 1) offering real-world innovative reform ideas that increase school options for parents, improve accountability ...
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March 6 rally can stop ‘Monopoly’ players from passing ‘Go’
ABC’s John Stossel in a “20/20” report examined America’s education system in a segment called “Stupid in America.” It wasn’t pretty. Teacher unions and bought-and-sold politicians don’t look so good when a reporter of Stossel’s ilk tells the unvarnished truth about public schools. The unions moaned, and one in New ...
More educating with less money
Orange County Register, March 27, 2009 Flash Report, March 29, 2009 CA Forward, March 27, 2009 Award-winning charter schools show public schools how to succeed. The Oakland Charter Academy and the Our Community Charter School in the San Fernando Valley have won the Hart Vision “Charter School of the Year” ...
Obama’s Education “Reforms”
In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shill for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details. ...
School choice for more than just Obama, Gates
Bill Gates recently released his annual letter on the state of his foundation. It turns out that he, President Obama and Chicago school chief Arne Duncan, the president’s pick for education secretary, have something in common. All say that the key experience in their life was their attendance at their ...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges San Francisco (March 19, 2009) – On March 17th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appointed Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies and senior director at the Pacific Research Institute, to the Board of Governors ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
Heritage Foundation “Foundry” Blog, March 16, 2009 A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on ...
Math lesson
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), March 15, 2009 Jack O’Connell, California’s superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week’s latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would ...
Sweden’s Choice
Why the Obama administration should look to Europe for a school voucher program that works. Click here to see full screen of video.
How California Can Be a K-12 Leader Again
SACRAMENTO—Heavy hitters in education reform convened here Monday for mayor Kevin Johnson’s Education Summit. The event was a microcosm of changes afoot nationwide and packed a powerful message for California. The summit had three overarching goals: 1) offering real-world innovative reform ideas that increase school options for parents, improve accountability ...
March 6 rally can stop ‘Monopoly’ players from passing ‘Go’
ABC’s John Stossel in a “20/20” report examined America’s education system in a segment called “Stupid in America.” It wasn’t pretty. Teacher unions and bought-and-sold politicians don’t look so good when a reporter of Stossel’s ilk tells the unvarnished truth about public schools. The unions moaned, and one in New ...
