In 2017-18, charter schools, which are publicly funded schools independent of school districts with greater flexibility to innovate, received nearly $7,800 less per pupil than a regular public school, which represented an amazing 33-percent funding gap between regular public and charter schools.

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PRI Chairman of the Board Clark Judge returns to discuss the lessons learned from Election 2020.  He shares his thoughts on where the conservative movement stands today after four years of President Trump, offers advice to conservatives, President Trump and President-Elect Biden on the road ahead, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in Washington during a presidential transition.

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PRI has written extensively about Prop. 16, which would have repealed Prop. 209’s ban on gender and racial preferences in state universities, hiring, and government contracting.  Democrats thought a year where social unrest dominated headlines would provide the favorable political environment to pass Prop. 16 and carry in their candidates in swing seats with large numbers of minority voters.

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On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the governors of Oregon and Washington issued a travel advisory “urging visitors entering their states or returning home from travel outside these states to self-quarantine to slow the spread of the virus.” The governors announced their disapproval of “non-essential out-of-state travel,” and are asking “people to self-quarantine for 14 days after arriving from another state or country and encourage residents to stay local.”

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