In public schools we trust?

By Will Swaim
10/02/2023
For fans of dark comedy, California politics is as good as any entertainment – shot through with grim irony, corrupt politicians, and laughable hypocrisy. Consider Attorney General Rob Bonta’s legal campaign to crush the practice of seven school districts to notify parents before gender-transitioning their children. Parent notification, as it’s called, “places transgender and gender...

TAGS: education reform, parental notification, parents rights, Rob Bonta

Parents, where do you draw the line? 

By California Policy Center
07/21/2023
Parents, where do you draw the line? The state legislature is aggressively shepherding anti-parent bills through its chambers that erode parental authority in ways that would seem unimaginable only a few years ago. Under the banner of “affirming transgender children,” legislators are pushing bills that upend parental rights in frightening ways and pose serious risks...

TAGS: education, education reform, Parent Empowerment Act, Parent Revolution, parent union, parents

An Open Letter to Assemblymember Kevin McCarty

By Lance Christensen
04/25/2023
RE: Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9 – OPPOSE, UNLESS AMENDED Dear Assemblyman McCarty, I write in respectful opposition to Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9 (ACA 9) as it is presently constituted. Full disclosure – I was the runner-up candidate for the constitutional office of Superintendent of Public Instruction on the November 2022 general election ballot. While considering the following comments...

TAGS: California Legislature, education, education reform, Kevin McCarty, Lance Christensen

California Policy Center’s Statewide Take Back California Education Tour Continues 

By Lance Christensen
03/28/2023
It did not take long after I announced a statewide education reform tour as a former candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction and in my role as California Policy Center’s Vice President of Education Policy and Government Affairs to receive an overwhelming and positive response. Parents, educators, school board members, and other concerned community members...

TAGS: California public education, education, education reform, Lance Christensen, orange county, Sacramento

SB 292: Is California Ready for School Choice?

By California Policy Center
03/10/2023
You can add Arkansas to the list of states that have enacted universal school choice legislation this year. In just three months, Republican governors in Iowa and Utah, and now newly-elected Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have signed laws creating statewide Education Savings Account (ESA) programs that empower parents to use state education dollars to...

TAGS: California public education, education reform, Education Savings Accounts, educational savings accounts, National School Choice Week, school choice

Class Size Lies

By Larry Sand
10/07/2022
The number of children in the classroom has no effect on educational achievement. The perennial, “We have a teacher shortage!” canard has a younger and equally bogus sibling known as, “Children do better in a small class setting!” In fact, lower class size is very often on the list of demands when teachers go out...

TAGS: california public schools, classrooms, education, education reform

Enormous Amounts of Money Flow into the Bottomless Education Pit

By Larry Sand
08/26/2022
This article originally appeared on frontpagemag.com   Spurred by the Covid panic, schools have been the recipient of ungodly sums of money. And it’s not as if the beast was starving before. To put things into perspective, the U.S. spends about $800 billion on national defense, more than China, Russia, India, the U.K., France, Saudi...

TAGS: California public education, California teachers unions, education reform, education spending, teachers