Education
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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.
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
California Considers Deep Education Cuts
California school officials and education reformers are wrestling with the specter of multibillion-dollar education budget cuts in 2009. But as Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled state legislature look for spending reductions to cover the budget shortfall, leading state educators are pleading for leniency. Early proposals floated by lawmakers ...
Commentary
Survey: Va. Parents Support All Forms of School Choice
Voters throughout Virginia’s lowest-income neighborhoods are strong supporters of school choice, a new poll reports. In mid-January the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) announced the results of their Parental Choice Survey, given to residents throughout Norfolk, Petersburg, and Richmond, Virginia. At ...
Charter Schools
Oakland Charter Schools “Do What Works,” and Outperform Their Peers
Charter School Business – Providence Financial, Inc., March 1, 2009 President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have stated their support for strong, successful charter schools in the United States. In fact, the new motto for the U.S. Department of Education is “Do what works.” The president and his ...
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 ...
California Considers Deep Education Cuts
California school officials and education reformers are wrestling with the specter of multibillion-dollar education budget cuts in 2009. But as Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled state legislature look for spending reductions to cover the budget shortfall, leading state educators are pleading for leniency. Early proposals floated by lawmakers ...
Survey: Va. Parents Support All Forms of School Choice
Voters throughout Virginia’s lowest-income neighborhoods are strong supporters of school choice, a new poll reports. In mid-January the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) announced the results of their Parental Choice Survey, given to residents throughout Norfolk, Petersburg, and Richmond, Virginia. At ...
Oakland Charter Schools “Do What Works,” and Outperform Their Peers
Charter School Business – Providence Financial, Inc., March 1, 2009 President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have stated their support for strong, successful charter schools in the United States. In fact, the new motto for the U.S. Department of Education is “Do what works.” The president and his ...
