Education Reform

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,”...

Unmasking school choice

Unmasking school choice

Abusive mask mandates for school children have exposed, yet again, the problem with central planning.

By Larry Sand

The hundred-year road to CRT

The hundred-year road to CRT

A brief look at the progressive agenda in education reveals that Critical Race Theory is just the latest in a long series of attempts to deform and ultimately fracture the country.

By Larry Sand

Don’t be afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Teachers Union!

Don’t be afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Teachers Union!

Making national news is the Rhode Island teachers union (backed up by the national teachers union) suing a local Rhode Island mother Nicole Solas to stop her accessing information about what her child is being taught in school. This follows comments by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingartenpromising to pay legal fees for teachers...

By Craig Alexander

More union-induced GPA inflation

More union-induced GPA inflation

It’s not everyday that a parent gets an email from their school district telling them that they can change their child’s grade if they didn’t like the last one. It’s even more surreal that the legislature thought that this was a good policy. With few exceptions, nearly every legislator voted to approve AB 104 by...

By Lance Christensen

The annual teacher shortage canard

The annual teacher shortage canard

Despite our ever-changing world, there are some annual events we can all count on: the earth will circle the sun, Christmas will be celebrated December 25th, and the California legislature will raise taxes on its citizens. And we can now add that list – howling from the media and the teachers unions that America has...

By Larry Sand

Back to school?

Back to school?

I want to believe that California’s public schools will reopen this fall. I really do. When the Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles finally reached an agreement in late June to fully reopen schools this fall, I was cautiously optimistic. Los Angeles was the major holdout in the state, remaining more...

By Chantal Lovell