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California’s Once Exceptional Public Education Shattered by Dogmatic Extremists

May 17, 2021 7:57 amMay 21, 2021 12:23 pm

Only half of public school students in California meet the state standards in English, and only 40 percent are proficient in math, says Lance Izumi, the Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. Even worse,...

Continued California School Shutdowns Could Reduce the Lifespans of Students

March 31, 2021 7:50 am

California is still the most strictly locked down state in the country, with Gov. Gavin Newsom now threatening to impose stricter lockdowns ahead of Easter. The governor told the state’s residents to resist multi-generational gatherings in homes with hugging and...

California’s Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies Curriculum Designed to Eliminate Dissent

February 1, 2021 2:24 amFebruary 8, 2021 8:09 pm

In 2019, California Globe reported that the California Department of Education had released an unintelligible draft of ethnic studies gibberish, which included a section on “Islamophobia.” The Legislature’s Jewish caucus, all Democrats, took umbrage with this, and issued a statement:...

Big Re-Open California Rally January 8-10th in Rancho Murieta

January 4, 2021 11:01 amJanuary 8, 2021 11:18 am

There will be a huge ReOpenCalNow.com Policy Conference January 8-10th in Rancho Murieta, near Sacramento. Sacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost teamed up with Orange County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt and Riverside County Supervisor Don Wagner to organize the event. However, the...

Policy and Personnel Hamper California’s Efforts to Address Homelessness

November 20, 2020 10:59 amNovember 22, 2020 7:51 am

Special to the California Globe by Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb In his February State of the State speech, Governor Newsom declared homelessness his number one priority, and that he and the Legislature would come together on a major housing...

California Education Scholar Lance Izumi Scores Exclusive Interview with Secretary Betsy DeVos

October 20, 2020 3:40 pm

Lance Izumi, senior director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Education, recently interviewed U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and covered the importance of expanding school choice opportunities for every student in America, school re-openings following the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Voting ‘NO’ on Prop 16 Means No Discrimination or Affirmative Action

August 10, 2020 12:29 pmAugust 10, 2020 5:09 pm

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” That is the opening statement of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg...