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Masking students and unmasking the radical agenda

Masking students and unmasking the radical agenda

The decision to mask and indoctrinate school children in California has been left to local school districts. The new school year is still weeks away in California, but summer break has hardly been a carefree romp on the beach. On July 12th, the California Department of Public Health, ignoring CDC guidance, announced that all students...

By Larry Sand

Fixing California- Part eight: Restoring quality education

Fixing California- Part eight: Restoring quality education

Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, the sixth here, and the seventh here. Pragmatism. Abundance. Optimism. If these are the principles that should guide public policy...

By Edward Ring

Fixing California – Part seven: Forest management

Fixing California – Part seven: Forest management

Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, and the sixth here. Nobody knew how the fire started. It took hold in the dry chaparral and grasslands and...

By Edward Ring

Two wins for students!

Two wins for students!

In a true testament to the impact engaged parents can have, California officials chose in two separate instances this week to put kids and their education before woke politics. It’s something not seen enough these days, and certainly worth celebrating when it happens. The first student-centric victory came on Tuesday, when the Los Angeles Unified...

By Chantal Lovell

Parent implores school district: Focus on academics, not international affairs

Parent implores school district: Focus on academics, not international affairs

This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously to support a resolution condemning anti-Israeli rhetoric being pushed by the United Teachers Los Angeles in recent months. Below are the comments offered by a Los Angeles parent on the resolution. Watch the full discussion here.  Good Morning. My name is Margaret...

By Editorial Staff

Listen: A cruel summer

Listen: A cruel summer

Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the quintessential California summer: water shortages, electricity blackouts, and wildfires. Throw in the return of COVID-19 and the restrictions that come with it and we’re in for...

By Editorial Staff

Fixing California – Part six: Homelessness and law enforcement

Fixing California – Part six: Homelessness and law enforcement

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, and the fifth here. The homeless population in California now tops 160,000, concentrated in Los Angeles County, but growing in every major city and...

By Edward Ring

Fixing California- Part five: Affordable market housing

Fixing California- Part five: Affordable market housing

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, the second here, the third here, and the fourth here. Everyone’s heard it by now. California’s got a housing shortage, with prices within 50 miles of the coast among the highest per...

By Edward Ring

Smoke on the Horizon: Failed California Fire Prevention Setting Up Terrible Fire Season

Smoke on the Horizon: Failed California Fire Prevention Setting Up Terrible Fire Season

In a recent investigation by CapRadio, Gavin Newsom was found to have misled the public with his progress on his wildfire prevention efforts. How big of a deal is this? Aren’t wildfires just a force of nature or an act of God? Isn’t climate change going to make fires worse anyway? How much did Newsom’s...

By Brandon Ristoff

Confronting Randi’s twaddle

Confronting Randi’s twaddle

After insisting that Critical Race Theory is not being taught in k-12 schools, Randi Weingarten – teacher union boss and gaslighter extraordinaire – has ceded any right to be taken seriously. Randi Weingarten, the gaffe-prone president of the American Federation of Teachers has outdone herself, and that isn’t easy. In a series of seven open...

By Larry Sand

Here we go again …

Here we go again …

Randi Weingarten is once again trying to gaslight the American public. First, she ludicrously claimed teachers unions had actually been fighting to reopen schools – not keep them closed – since April 2020. Now, she’s trying to fool parents into thinking assignments titled “Why I’m a racist” and “White savior complex” aren’t critical race theory....

By Chantal Lovell

Fixing California- Part four: The transportation revolution

Fixing California- Part four: The transportation revolution

Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, the second here, and the third here. Reading California’s “Transportation Plan 2050” is a depressing journey into groupthink. Like everything coming out of the one-party bureaucracy, it is the bland product of...

By Edward Ring

Listen: While San Francisco simmers

Listen: While San Francisco simmers

Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the latest lunacy coming out of the City by the Bay, and an expansion of California’s ban on taxpayer-funded travel to states Attorney General Rob Bonta thinks...

By Editorial Staff

Decolonizing the curriculum, confronting white nationalism and combatting period poverty

Decolonizing the curriculum, confronting white nationalism and combatting period poverty

At its yearly convention, the National Education Association advanced its political agenda, while doing nothing to address America’s failing public schools. “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children,” a quote attributed to teacher union godfather Albert Shanker, has become lore. While it is doubtful he...

By Larry Sand