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What We’re Watching – Celebrating National School Choice Week

Tim Anaya – Celebrating National School Choice Week This week, we’re celebrating National School Choice Week, and the power of school choice to meeting the individual needs of students.  Whether a student is attending a public, private, charter, or religious school or is homeschooled, only through school choice can the ...
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National School Choice Week Celebrates All Types of Education Choice

This week is National School Choice Week and it is important to remember that education choice includes not just private, charter, and traditional public options, but also homeschooling options as well. My upcoming book, co-authored with the amazing Mia Giordano, tells the story of Mia’s incredible educational journey.  Because of ...
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New Poll Shows Strong Support for Education Freedom Scholarships

This week’s observance of National School Choice Week in California comes at a time when the movement to expand charter schools in the Golden State and increase school choice options for every student is at a particularly low ebb. Recall that last fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation ...
Education

Lance Izumi Talks School Choice Week on The Phil Cowan Show

Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of the Center for Education, talks about School Choice Week on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer. Founded in 2011, School Choice Week is a national celebration and advocacy week for effective education options for children. Lance’s segment beings at the 1:28 ...
Charter Schools

Key Supreme Court Case Could Increase School-choice Possibilities In California

The week of January 27th is National School Choice Week, which is appropriate since a potentially landmark case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could have wide-ranging implications for California parents who want more education options for their children.    The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, involves a Montana ...
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What We’re Watching – January 17

Evan Harris – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins the Commonwealth Club of California  Sec. Mike Pompeo sat down with Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on Monday, Jan. 13 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Secretary Pompeo discussed the threats to American intellectual property rights ...
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What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker

Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
Charter Schools

Trump’s school choice plan will help kids, and is smart politics

At a recent White House roundtable with students, teachers and policymakers, President Trump said that children trapped in failing government schools “would be forgotten no longer,” and urged Congress to pass his Education Freedom Scholarships proposal, which would improve education for America’s children. Under the president’s EFS proposal, taxpayers could make voluntary ...
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Fighting for Free Markets as a New Decade Approaches

As our nation enters a pivotal presidential election year, it will be critically important to promote and defend free markets and individual freedom in California and throughout the country. The Pacific Research Institute remains committed to advancing policies that champion liberty and prosperity to better the lives of Californians and ...
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School Choice: California Looks Backwards, Florida Looks Forward

Reviewing the 2019 education landscape shows some states taking giant steps backwards, while others made great strides, and this contrast is nowhere more stark than between California and Florida. In California, the education theme was “let’s take choice away from parents and children.” The teacher strikes in Oakland and Los ...
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What We’re Watching – Celebrating National School Choice Week

Tim Anaya – Celebrating National School Choice Week This week, we’re celebrating National School Choice Week, and the power of school choice to meeting the individual needs of students.  Whether a student is attending a public, private, charter, or religious school or is homeschooled, only through school choice can the ...
Blog

National School Choice Week Celebrates All Types of Education Choice

This week is National School Choice Week and it is important to remember that education choice includes not just private, charter, and traditional public options, but also homeschooling options as well. My upcoming book, co-authored with the amazing Mia Giordano, tells the story of Mia’s incredible educational journey.  Because of ...
Blog

New Poll Shows Strong Support for Education Freedom Scholarships

This week’s observance of National School Choice Week in California comes at a time when the movement to expand charter schools in the Golden State and increase school choice options for every student is at a particularly low ebb. Recall that last fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation ...
Education

Lance Izumi Talks School Choice Week on The Phil Cowan Show

Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of the Center for Education, talks about School Choice Week on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer. Founded in 2011, School Choice Week is a national celebration and advocacy week for effective education options for children. Lance’s segment beings at the 1:28 ...
Charter Schools

Key Supreme Court Case Could Increase School-choice Possibilities In California

The week of January 27th is National School Choice Week, which is appropriate since a potentially landmark case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could have wide-ranging implications for California parents who want more education options for their children.    The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, involves a Montana ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – January 17

Evan Harris – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins the Commonwealth Club of California  Sec. Mike Pompeo sat down with Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on Monday, Jan. 13 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Secretary Pompeo discussed the threats to American intellectual property rights ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker

Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
Charter Schools

Trump’s school choice plan will help kids, and is smart politics

At a recent White House roundtable with students, teachers and policymakers, President Trump said that children trapped in failing government schools “would be forgotten no longer,” and urged Congress to pass his Education Freedom Scholarships proposal, which would improve education for America’s children. Under the president’s EFS proposal, taxpayers could make voluntary ...
Blog

Fighting for Free Markets as a New Decade Approaches

As our nation enters a pivotal presidential election year, it will be critically important to promote and defend free markets and individual freedom in California and throughout the country. The Pacific Research Institute remains committed to advancing policies that champion liberty and prosperity to better the lives of Californians and ...
Blog

School Choice: California Looks Backwards, Florida Looks Forward

Reviewing the 2019 education landscape shows some states taking giant steps backwards, while others made great strides, and this contrast is nowhere more stark than between California and Florida. In California, the education theme was “let’s take choice away from parents and children.” The teacher strikes in Oakland and Los ...
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