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New PRI Poll: As School Year Begins, Voters See Room for Improvement with Local Schools
Voters say parents don't have enough influence on their school board

As students head back to school, a new national survey commissioned by the Pacific Research Institute finds that voters are more dissatisfied with their local school boards than their neighborhood schools, and see room for improvement in public education.

When asked how they rated their local public schools,
* 45 percent rated them as being excellent or good, compared to 47 percent who rated them as being fair, poor, or very poor.

* Just 36 percent gave their local school board an excellent/good rating, compared to 49 percent who rated them as being fair/poor/very poor.

“PRI’s new survey shows that, as a new school year begins, parents and the public see room for improvement with public schools and school boards,” said Lance Izumi, senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. “Voters want school boards to listen to parents and focus on what public schools historically have been tasked to do – raise student achievement in math, reading, and the core subjects.”

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Lance Izumi discusses new PRI education survey
on Next Round Podcast
August 28, 2023

Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI's Center for Education, discuss PRI's national survey on public schools and local school boards on PRI's weekly Next Round podcast. Lance also discusses other a range of other education topics - from the Supreme Court’s decision on the Harvard case on Asian American admissions discrimination, to wokeism in our schools – including the new woke math in California.

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New School Year, New Hope for At-Risk Students

Right by the Bay | Lance Izumi | August 29, 2023

I report on a lot of bad news about education in California, which is why it was so invigorating to attend the inaugural opening day of Cristo Rey Orange County, an innovative Catholic school that combines rigorous academics with a unique work-study program that has proved successful for countless students in Cristo Rey’s nationwide network of high schools.

The sky may have been grey on opening morning, but bright lights shone from the faces of the students at the ceremonies for Cristo Rey Orange County’s first day.

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