Education Reform

Domestic terrorists?

Domestic terrorists?

If there’s a silver lining to be found in the way teachers’ unions robbed a year-and-a-half of learning from students, it’s that parents across the country have become more engaged in their children’s education. For months, we’ve seen parents band together to ask more of their school districts, and not a week goes by without...

By Lance Christensen

California’s children are property of the state

California’s children are property of the state

Mandatory vaccines and behind-your-back procedures are in the works. California has a long history of “firsts.” The Golden State was home to the first computer, the first movie theater and importantly, the first martini. Sadly, the state is now leading the nation in abusing children. For starters, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a vaccine mandate last...

By Larry Sand

It’s time to end government-run schooling

It’s time to end government-run schooling

We need to bulldoze the education establishment and privatize schools. The National Center for Education Statistics recently published K-12 enrollment data for the 2020–21 school year, and it showed a 3% drop – about 1.5 million kids from the previous year. With a total k–12 enrollment of about 51 million students in the U.S., that...

By Larry Sand

Two ballot proposals hold great promise for CA students

Two ballot proposals hold great promise for CA students

Political observers speculated there was just one reason many schools re-opened this fall: teachers union leaders wanted to help Gov. Gavin Newsom, then fighting off a campaign to remove him from office. Were Newsom to win, they argued, California’s teachers unions would have a loyalist in office, allowing teachers unions to work from home, and...

By Chantal Lovell

Student Centered Funding, School Choice and Racism

Student Centered Funding, School Choice and Racism

The plan to veer away from educational central planning in Los Angeles is on hold, and a professor of educational history farcically links school choice to racism. When the Los Angeles school board met last week, one of the items on its agenda was voting on the new Student Centered Funding (SCF) plan. As California...

By Larry Sand

Christensen: Teachers disgusted by Antifa teacher can leave their union

Christensen: Teachers disgusted by Antifa teacher can leave their union

While speaking in front of the Natomas Unified School Board in response to a Project Veritas video outing an Advanced Placement Government teacher for his controversial teaching methods designed to transform his students into Marxist revolutionaries, California Policy Center’s Executive Vice President made the following statement in the public comment section (starting at minute 20:21,...

By Lance Christensen

Parent Union billboard: Unmask our children!

Parent Union billboard: Unmask our children!

Members of the Parent Union in Riverside County have erected a billboard with a simple message: Unmask our children now! The billboard, which also carries the message in Spanish, can be seen by motorists on Interstate 10 in the Coachella Valley for the next month. “We are hoping the mask mandates for children are lifted,”...