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Why Can’t Our Schools Afford to Improve the Education of our Kids?

June 11, 2025 3:00 amJune 11, 2025 4:45 pm

School budget season is on us once again. This is crunch time for local activists who really want to see what your district is planning for the future and have some influence on how they spend our tax dollars. Nothing...

Cash to California’s Classrooms, Not Bureaucrats

April 16, 2025 6:53 amApril 16, 2025 6:53 am

California’s education system is broken and needs deep, system-wide reform. Despite the state spending more than $18,000 on each student, public school performance continues to worsen. In the 2023–2024 school year, the rate of chronically absent students reached 20.4%, meaning...

Proposed Education Funding Scheme Doesn’t Address California’s Needed Public School Reforms

January 19, 2022 7:42 am

Between the 2020 and 2021 school years, tens of thousands of students left California’s public schools – the latest total shows more than 160,000 students have left California schools. COVID-19 student absences have also wreaked havoc among California public schools,...

California Parents Contributing to the Homeschool Boom

September 21, 2021 12:34 pmApril 3, 2022 7:17 am

California is experiencing a homeschool boom, and it’s not just a result of school lockdowns during the COVID pandemic. The pandemic may have been the first time parents really and thoroughly saw what their kids were being taught in California...