Lance Izumi Archives - California Globe

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 and Kids are Abandoning Public Schools with Gov. Newsom’s Attack on Parent Choice

October 4, 2021 5:09 pmOctober 13, 2021 1:31 am

Only hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Friday announcement of a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all schoolchildren of FDA approval age in California, homeschooling and tutoring inquiries shot up dramatically, with some homeschooling sites even going down to the sheer...

California Parents Contributing to the Homeschool Boom

September 21, 2021 12:34 pmSeptember 28, 2021 5:05 pm

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...

Pandemic Lockdowns Caused Huge Student Learning Losses and Widened Achievement Gaps

August 16, 2021 3:52 pmAugust 16, 2021 3:52 pm

“With uncertainty over the impact of the COVID-19 Delta variant on the start of the upcoming school year, new research shows the extent of learning loss and mental health problems experienced by students during the pandemic-caused school closures,” Education Scholar...

CTA, Democrats are the Power & Politics Behind Bill to Defund California Charter Schools

June 2, 2021 5:02 pmJune 3, 2021 8:58 pm

A bill to defund and dismantle California public charter schools has received an outpouring of opposition from thousands of angry parents, school board members and communities. Masquerading as “School accountability: financial and performance audits,” this “transparency reform bill,” Assembly Bill...

Gov. Newsom’s College Savings Account Proposal Falls Flat With Education Scholar

May 24, 2021 4:00 pm

“In his recently released revised budget, Governor Gavin Newsom put forward a group of proposals to ‘Re-Imagine California’s Public Schools.’ Sadly, most of these proposals will do little to raise student achievement in a public school system that was failing...

California’s Once Exceptional Public Education Shattered by Dogmatic Extremists

May 17, 2021 7:57 amMay 21, 2021 12:23 pm

Only half of public school students in California meet the state standards in English, and only 40 percent are proficient in math, says Lance Izumi, the Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. Even worse,...