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Key Supreme Court Case Could Increase School-choice Possibilities In California
Fox & Hounds | Lance Izumi
January 27, 2020
If the Supreme Court does invalidate all state Blaine amendments, including California’s, it would clear the way for the enactment of an array of school-choice options, such as tax-credit scholarships and vouchers. In California, polls show strong support for school choice, and without the obstacle of the state Blaine amendment, that support could become a political force for education change.
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Adam Andrzejewski – Open the Books
PRI Next Round Podcast
January 27, 2020
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of Open the Books, an organization dedicated to transparency in government. Open the Books has been at the forefront of holding state government accountable for how it spends taxpayer money. In California, Governor Newsom’s most recent state budget plan proposed $222 billion in General Fund spending alone. Adam discusses the case against California and Open the Books’ victories in other states in holding public officials accountable.
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Newsom’s ‘Bold’ Plan on Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients, Lower Drug Costs
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
January 27, 2020
He should not have to be reminded that there is a vast distance between a for-profit company and government. They exist for entirely different reasons, and when the boundaries separating the two are blurred, and often deleted altogether, the consequences are rarely beneficial to anyone other than bureaucrats; politicians, who consolidate their “elite” power; and the limited private interests those politicians chose to favor over everyone else.
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New Poll Shows Strong Support for Education Freedom Scholarships
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
January 28, 2020
Meanwhile, on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, candidate Elizabeth Warren going all in with an anti-school choice education platform. Izumi writes of Warren’s plan to “eliminate the federal program that promotes new charter schools” and have “only local school boards, which are often controlled by union sycophants, to have the power to authorize the establishment of charter schools,” which he notes is a position to the left of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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The City That Taxed Too Much
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
January 30, 2020
SFGate says participation by diners is “technically optional,” and “if you choose to opt in,” the restaurant “purports to make your meal more climate-friendly.” But one restaurant, Great Gold, told the hard-left Mother Jones, according to SFGate, “that after many diners commented negatively on it, the restaurant decided to drop the fee and raise prices by 1% instead, with the intention of sending that 1% to Restore California each month.”
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Upcoming Events
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** The 2020 California Vision:
How Free Market Ideas Can Address the New Decade’s Major Challenges
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Join us for PRI’s second annual California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference and hear policy experts, opinion leaders, and real life changemakers at informative panel discussions on:
• Preventing Future Power Outages, Wildfires Through the Governor’s Executive Powers
• Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity
• School Choice as a Tool to Help Special Needs Students Beat the Odds
• Homelessness in California
Followed by a reception celebrating the publication of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All by Sally C. Pipes, PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy
Wednesday, February 19
Hyatt Regency Sacramento, Capitol View Room (15th Floor)
Registration starts at 11:30 AM
Keynote luncheon feat. The Hon. Janice Rogers Brown* starts at Noon
Panel discussions from 1:30 to 5:30 PM
Reception celebrating False Premise, False Promise by Sally C. Pipes at 5:30 PM
*Scheduled to appear
Registration is complimentary
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Upcoming Events
National School Choice Week Event: The State of School Choice in California in 2020 ([link removed])
** Join Pacific Research Institute for a policy discussion during National School Choice Week 2020
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As California celebrates National School Choice Week, the future of charter schools is uncertain following legislation enacted in 2019. Join Pacific Research Institute Senior Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi as he leads a panel of education reform experts at the State Capitol in discussing the impact of last year’s legislative changes, 2020 legislative efforts that could impact school choice, and reform ideas to preserve and expand school choice options for students and parents.
Featured Speakers:
Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education
Larry Sand, President, California Teachers Empowerment Network
Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, Vice-Chair, Assembly Education Committee
Friday, January 31, 2020
12 – 1 PM
State Capitol, Room 125
Sacramento
Registration is complimentary and includes lunch but space is severely limited!
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