Lance Izumi – California Globe

23 Governors Say No to Trump’s School Choice Scholarships

January 30, 2026 9:00 amJanuary 31, 2026 1:31 pm

The good news is that 27 governors have joined President Donald Trump’s School Choice Scholarships, making available scholarships for millions of kids without impacting public school funding. However, the bad news is 23 governors haven’t and probably won’t opt in,...

Newsom’s Proposed Education Budget: ‘Big Spending, Little Results’

January 19, 2026 11:55 amJanuary 19, 2026 11:55 am

“Overwhelmingly, schools named for Dr. King fail to meet basic academic benchmarks established by the state for Reading and Math,” Gloria Romero reports at the Globe on Martin Luther King Day 2026. Coinciding with MLK Day 2026, and Gloria Romero’s...

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Fairytale State of the State

January 8, 2026 3:56 pmJanuary 11, 2026 9:57 pm

“Was that a State of the State address, or the opening act of a campaign speech?” California State Senator Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach) asked, following Governor Gavin Newsom’s final State of the State address. “Californians want honesty and accountability, not...

Legal Advocacy Stops a Racially Exclusionary Scholarship at UC San Diego

October 30, 2025 2:06 pmOctober 30, 2025 2:06 pm

Wenyuan Wu In the case of a joint legal challenge to halt the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, a 42-year-old program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the wheels of justice turned quickly. Almost immediately after our lawsuit Californians...

Failure is a Choice: CA Students Still Testing Below COVID-19 Pandemic Scores in English and Math

October 21, 2025 8:31 amOctober 21, 2025 11:24 am

“As California wallows in continued low student performance, a new study shows that school choice is making a positive difference in student outcomes in Arkansas.” Lance Izumi, senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. He...

Catholic Schools Succeed Where Public Schools Fail. Why?

October 1, 2025 10:38 amOctober 1, 2025 10:55 am

Recently released results on the National Assessment for Educational Progress, administered in most states, showed that Catholic school students scored much higher than students in the public schools. “On the 2024 NAEP eighth-grade reading test, Catholic-school students scored 20 points...

How Did California’s Public Education Go From Best in the US to Worst?

July 9, 2025 2:00 pmJuly 10, 2025 12:29 pm

American teachers and teachers unions have failed children. Teachers unions have become the biggest school bullies, sacrificing school children on the altar of power and control. My parents were teachers throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, into 2000’s. They saw...