Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute

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...

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...

National School Choice Week: 26,000 Independently Planned Events Spanning all 50 States

January 23, 2022 5:13 pmJanuary 23, 2022 5:45 pm

Now in its twelfth year, National School Choice Week kicks off this week with 26,000 independently planned events spanning all 50 states. Every January, supporters of parents as the architects of their children’s educational journeys gather in school fairs, open houses,...