Lance Izumi – Page 2 – California Globe

Widespread Civics Deficiency on Display at University Protests

May 15, 2024 10:20 amMay 15, 2024 10:20 am

“As college campuses across the country descend into chaos, with authoritarian mobs violently taking over buildings, attacking police, and vandalizing property, Americans rightly wonder why so many young people are engaging in grossly undemocratic behavior,” says Lance Izumi, Senior Director...

Thousands of CSU Faculty Strike… During National School Choice Week

January 22, 2024 2:30 pmJanuary 22, 2024 9:48 pm

This week is National School Choice Week. As states across the country are enacting universal school choice programs to allow all children to access education options, more than 30,000 California State University faculty have walked off the job in a...

EdSource Article Promoting Racial Preferences Cheapens Higher Ed

January 17, 2024 3:16 pm

A rational person would reason that in the aftermath of the Harvard University Claudine Gay antisemitism, diversity-hire catastrophe, and plagiarism scandal, the only important diversity is that of thought. Merit, rather than skin color is supposed to be the hiring...

Newsom’s Proposed Education Budget Grows as Students Test Scores Continue to Drop

January 16, 2024 2:31 pmJanuary 17, 2024 3:49 pm

Last week California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his 2024-2025 state budget, feigning indignation over the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s recent update on the state’s actual budget deficit, which the LAO put at $68 billion. Newsom’s $330 billion budget has supposedly been...

Latest Media Literacy ‘Fake News’ Bill Passes Assembly Unanimously

June 5, 2023 2:26 pmJune 5, 2023 4:19 pm

Rather than making sure California’s K-12 public school students are graduating able to read and speak at grade level, do math at grade level, know who the President of the noted States is, where Uganda, Singapore and Nova Scotia are...

Students Trapped in California’s Failing Public Schools Deserve a Way Out

March 20, 2023 8:41 amMarch 21, 2023 9:18 am

During the pandemic, funding for California’s K-12 schools and community colleges spiked from $79.3 billion in 2019-20 to $110.4 billion in 2021-22 — a 39% increase. Also during the pandemic, California public school enrollment dropped by more than a quarter of a...

Disastrous Learning Results, Ideological Indoctrination Prompt Working-Class, Military Community to Speak Up

February 8, 2023 7:52 amFebruary 8, 2023 8:08 am

Oceanside, California is a beautiful seaside town and home to a working-class community with a median per-capita income of $37,366. The city’s two largest public employers are: Oceanside Unified School District (OUSD), a public K-12 school district, and Camp Pendleton,...