An Open Letter to Assemblymember Kevin McCarty
An Open Letter to Assemblymember Kevin McCarty
RE: Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9 – OPPOSE, UNLESS AMENDED Dear Assemblyman McCarty, I write in respectful opposition to Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9 (ACA 9) as it is presently constituted. Full disclosure – I was the runner-up candidate for the constitutional office of Superintendent of Public Instruction on the November 2022 general election ballot. While considering the following comments...
By Lance Christensen
California Policy Center’s Statewide Take Back California Education Tour Continues
California Policy Center’s Statewide Take Back California Education Tour Continues
It did not take long after I announced a statewide education reform tour as a former candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction and in my role as California Policy Center’s Vice President of Education Policy and Government Affairs to receive an overwhelming and positive response. Parents, educators, school board members, and other concerned community members...
By Lance Christensen
Barnstorming California on Education Reform
Barnstorming California on Education Reform
California’s primary and secondary education system is broken. I don’t need to list the parade of horribles — we all know them. We are failing the next generation. With your input, I would like to find a better way. You’re skeptical that any reform of value can be achieved in California. I get it. I...
By Lance Christensen
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
The proverbial rain comes down
The proverbial rain comes down
Yes, we’re in a serious drought, but in terms of policy and politics, California is stuck in a figurative torrent of biblical proportions. As the old Southern folk song put it, “The rains came down, and the floods came up,” and for many, it’s not clear whether California was built on a foundation of sand...
By Lance Christensen
Newsom is right- There’s much his replacement can do if he’s recalled
Newsom is right- There’s much his replacement can do if he’s recalled
A new governor will have one year to whip into shape a bloated, sleepy and sloppy state bureaucracy that has festered in mediocrity for years
By Lance Christensen
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
Press Advisory: Project Veritas
Press Advisory: Project Veritas
August 31, 2021 – Natomas USD, Calif. – Today Project Veritas released a video showing his an Advanced Placement U.S. Government teacher in Natomas Unified School District boasting about radicalizing high school students through his involvement with the extremist Antifa group. California Policy Center’s Executive Vice President, Lance Christensen, offered the following response:...
By Lance Christensen
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
CPC’s Letter of Support for AB 1484
CPC’s Letter of Support for AB 1484
RE: AB 1484 – SUPPORT Dear Assemblymember Kiley: The California Policy Center is pleased to support Assembly Bill 1484 to bring California law into compliance with a recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States and ensure public school employees are freely able to consent or decline union membership. On June 27, 2018,...
By Lance Christensen