California’s misguided education priorities
California’s misguided education priorities
Throwing more money at a failing education system is pure folly.
LAUSD’s new funding approach terrifies UTLA
LAUSD’s new funding approach terrifies UTLA
New funding approach threatens to destroy union’s power over district
What would a centrist do?
What would a centrist do?
The notion of centrism invites scorn from true believers. In many cases it is justified. A politician or person who just bends to the wind and prioritizes staying out of the crossfire, can often be accused of believing in nothing. Those in the so-called center deserve no respect if it is merely a hiding place...
America’s automotive future
America’s automotive future
Joe Biden, emulating trendsetting blue state governors like California’s Gavin Newsom and New York’s Andrew Cuomo, recently has declared that by 2030, new car sales must be 50 percent zero-emission electric vehicles. The problem with this decree is that it violates the proverbial rule against the government picking winners and losers. It’s one thing for the government to subsidize energy...
Unmasking school choice
Unmasking school choice
Abusive mask mandates for school children have exposed, yet again, the problem with central planning.
Listen: Disney took us for a ride
Listen: Disney took us for a ride
Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out!
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.
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...
LA Times blasts teachers union
LA Times blasts teachers union
UTLA’s anti-Israel stance draws criticism from union’s strongest supporters
California’s largest school districts are underwater
California’s largest school districts are underwater
Massive debt raises questions about new spending proposals
The teacher union’s love-hate relationship with testing
The teacher union’s love-hate relationship with testing
Testing for thee, but not for me. That’s the message sent to parents by the United Teachers Los Angeles. In its latest demonstration of epic irony, the union is demanding all 600,000 students subject to its reign be tested weekly for COVID-19 in order to return to the classroom, while simultaneously lobbying the district to...
Listen: The coming bacon apocalypse
Listen: The coming bacon apocalypse
In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the breakfast panic making its way to California: a potential bacon shortage caused by taxpayers. In recall news, the race is tightening and Governor Gavin Newsom has called the one and only Elizabeth Warren for help. California’s...
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...
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...