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 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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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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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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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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