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School Choice Can Save Children and Salvage our Education System

January 17, 2022 9:53 amJanuary 17, 2022 8:38 am

“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind,” Martin Luther King, Jr. said. Yet for years our education system has tried its best to ignore parents and discouraged involvement. That must change. Across the...

Tech Entrepreneurs Call for Backing California School Choice Initiative on ‘All-In’ Podcast

January 4, 2022 1:12 pmJanuary 4, 2022 8:12 pm

The entertaining, stimulating, funny and seriously interesting “All-In” Podcast did a recent episode in which they lamented the damage Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID school lockdowns have done to California’s children. This interesting group of four “besties,” Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis,...

‘Back to the Future’ California Recap and 2022 Political Predictions

January 2, 2022 2:15 amJanuary 3, 2022 4:19 am

While political pundits predict a red wave across the country in the 2022 midterm elections, many even anticipate a wave of change in the Golden State. How big the California wave is, and what form it will take, will be...

School Choice Wins in U.S. Supreme Court Could Impact California Efforts

December 15, 2021 2:25 pmApril 3, 2022 8:38 am

Two headline-making U.S. Supreme Court cases are setting important precedents for school choice efforts across the country. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Montana...

What Initiatives Might Be on the Nov. 2022 Ballot?

October 19, 2021 8:02 am

California voters are getting used to making state policy via the ballot initiative, due to having such a dysfunctional Legislature. Each election, there are many initiatives on the state and local ballots. What are Californians looking at for the November...

Democratic Former Senate Leader Romero Endorses Larry Elder

August 25, 2021 9:55 amMarch 29, 2022 7:04 am

“School choice means the money follows the child rather than the other way around,” Larry Elder, candidate for Governor in the Recall Election of Gov. Gavin Newsom explains in a campaign video. “A quality education is the first step into...

What are the Recall Candidates Saying About the State of California Public Education?

August 9, 2021 2:20 amAugust 12, 2021 2:21 pm

Even before the pandemic, California’s public schools were not something to write home about. But what COVID, and the related mandates and closures and distance learning and union intransigence did to it, seems to have obliterated whatever shred of credibility...