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Fighting for $15… By Saying Businesses That Pay Less Shouldn’t Exist – CPC Newsletter

Fighting for $15… By Saying Businesses That Pay Less Shouldn’t Exist – CPC Newsletter

The teachers union vaccine bargaining chip: This week, Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner told the school board that all school employees must be vaccinated before elementary classrooms can reopen. At the behest of teachers unions, other districts in the state have also made this anti-science demand, which Gov. Newsom has called unrealistic. Newsom announced last Friday that 10 percent of the...

By Jordan Bruneau

Update: 99.9% of California Passes Newsom’s K-6 Reopening Threshold; School Districts Set Tentative Reopening Dates With Teachers Unions in the Way

Update: 99.9% of California Passes Newsom’s K-6 Reopening Threshold; School Districts Set Tentative Reopening Dates With Teachers Unions in the Way

CLICK HERE to see which benchmarks your county has passed this week. On February 23, the California Department of Public Health’s released their updated Blueprint for a Safer Economy. With this new update, fifty-five out of fifty-eight counties, which covers 99.9% of the Californian population, have reached Newsom’s K-6 school reopening threshold. Five new counties...

By Brandon Ristoff

Huge Waiting List for Orange County Classical Academy

Huge Waiting List for Orange County Classical Academy

In the 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, there is an unforgettable scene, where parents and children anxiously await the results of a lottery. A lucky few will be able to enroll their children in a charter school. These New York City schools only have capacity to admit one in twenty of the applicants. Charter schools are...

By Edward Ring

Equity = Inequality, Discrimination and Mediocrity

Equity = Inequality, Discrimination and Mediocrity

The fixation on equity is a loser for all concerned. At the same time that the indoctrination of American students continues to work its way through the schools, its evil twin “equity” is advancing right along with it. As the race-obsessed Ibram X. Kendi explains, equity exists when “two or more racial groups are standing...

By Larry Sand

What a Difference Six Weeks Can Make – CPC Newsletter

What a Difference Six Weeks Can Make – CPC Newsletter

What a difference six weeks can make: Covid-19 hospitalizations in California have plummeted over the last six weeks. On Jan. 7, California’s Covid hospitalizations peaked at 22,851 people. By yesterday, that figure had fallen by 63 percent (nearly two-thirds) to 8,566. New cases have fallen even faster. It’s time for social and economic restrictions to lift to reflect this new pandemic prevalence....

By Jordan Bruneau

Exodus: Digital Realty Trust, Stitch Fix, and Miami Billboards

Exodus: Digital Realty Trust, Stitch Fix, and Miami Billboards

Every week, we recognize some businesses or people that are leaving or have left the Golden State and some of the biggest stories regarding the exoduses. To access The California Book of Exoduses: CLICK HERE Digital Realty Trust On January 14, Digital Realty Trust, a $36 billion company with over 1,500 employees, announced their relocation...

By Brandon Ristoff

California’s Bureaucracies Fail to Submit Timely Financial Data

California’s Bureaucracies Fail to Submit Timely Financial Data

With Californians about to enter their second year of restricted economic activity, and with all the resulting financial anxiety and hardship, it’s unfortunate that accurate and timely financial information isn’t available for the vast public sector. While public sector budgets and projections abound, actual audited financial data for recently completed fiscal years is subject to...

By Edward Ring

The Final Sprint: Nine Out of the Ten Largest California Counties Reach Newsom’s Benchmark to Reopen K-6 Schools

The Final Sprint: Nine Out of the Ten Largest California Counties Reach Newsom’s Benchmark to Reopen K-6 Schools

CLICK HERE to see which benchmarks your county has passed this week. Last week, we examined the different benchmarks that could be used to determine whether schools in California counties could be allowed to reopen. We’ve now updated this analysis and found that the vast majority of the state meets Gov. Newsom’s Safe Schools for...

By Brandon Ristoff

Elite Private Schools Go Woke

Elite Private Schools Go Woke

Some parents are paying $50,000 a year for their kids to be indoctrinated. Colleges have been fertile fields of woke craziness for years now. Just a few recent examples: Middlebury College Professor Jonathan Miller-Lane claims that “To preserve American democracy, Whiteness must be demilitarized so that bodies designated as ‘White’ might become human.” A Washington...

By Larry Sand

Letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

Letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

In a little-known and influential institution, a group of experts at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) regularly update best practices and standards for government financial practices and procedures. They are best recognized for their generally accepted accounting principles. As described in their website, “GASB develops and issues accounting standards through a transparent and inclusive...

By Jordan Bruneau

When Will School Reopen – CPC Newsletter

When Will School Reopen – CPC Newsletter

Newsom signals school reopening deal coming any day now: On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he’s close to striking a deal with the state’s powerful teachers unions to reopen elementary classrooms. The sticking point is vaccines, which unions are demanding for teachers before they return. Newsom explained that full teacher vaccination before school reopening is not realistic. Expect...

By Jordan Bruneau

Exodus: ZP Better Together, Salesforce, and Dee Dee Myers

Exodus: ZP Better Together, Salesforce, and Dee Dee Myers

Every week, we recognize some businesses or people that are leaving or have left the Golden State and some of the biggest stories regarding the exoduses. To access The California Book of Exoduses: CLICK HERE ZP Better Together ZP Better Together is a communications company focusing on providing services for those who are deaf or...

By Brandon Ristoff

Should My School Be Open?: Looking at Alternative Benchmarks for Reopening Schools

Should My School Be Open?: Looking at Alternative Benchmarks for Reopening Schools

CLICK HERE to see the which benchmarks your county has passed. It has now been over a month since Governor Newsom introduced his Safe Schools for All plan, which would have allowed schools to reopen soon. How has the school reopening situation changed since then? Newsom’s plan did not receive the necessary legislative approval by...

By Brandon Ristoff

The Consequences of Centrally Planned Compassion

The Consequences of Centrally Planned Compassion

Sixty years ago, when California was governed by people who were sane pragmatists, homes were affordable and very few people were homeless. To support new housing, government funds were focused on building enabling infrastructure. California’s freeways and expressways connected new suburbs to urban cores, and the California Water Project delivered abundant water to the growing...

By Edward Ring