Lance Izumi – California Globe

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...

San Francisco Schools’ ‘Equity Grading’ Scheme Backfires

June 23, 2025 6:27 amJune 23, 2025 12:04 pm

California recently parents discovered that the San Francisco Unified School District had proposed a “grading for equity” initiative, dumbing down all students to the lowest common denominator, the Globe reported. Rather than lifting struggling students, San Francisco district comrades chose...

Greenberg & Grimes: Wiener as King Ignores Federal Supremacy

June 17, 2025 2:55 amJune 17, 2025 2:49 pm

We watched President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday celebration and military parade in Washington, D.C., and also observed the “No Kings” protests in 2,000 cities across the country all weekend – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Protests in California...

San Francisco School District Parents Betrayed Again

June 1, 2025 10:00 amJune 2, 2025 7:13 am

Last week, California parents discovered that the San Francisco Unified School District had proposed a “grading for equity” initiative, dumbing down all students to the lowest common denominator, The Voice of San Francisco reported. Parental outrage hit peak levels after...