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PRI’s Lance Izumi Talks About the Need to Reopen Schools on Newsy
Newsy | Lance Izumi
January 8, 2021
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the debate over school reopenings and the resignation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Newsy, the national cable news network.
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National School Choice Week 2021: How Students Can Overcome Learning Disabilities Through Science and School Choice ([link removed])
Join PRI for a special webinar with Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education in conversation with Mia Giordano and her mom, Christine Zanello, the subjects of Izumi's latest book A Kite in a Hurricane No More.
Speakers:
Mia Giordano
Christine Zanello
Lance Izumi
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11 am Pacific Via Zoom ([link removed])
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PRI's 3rd Annual California Ideas in Action Policy Conference
Thursday, February 4 and Friday, February 5, 2021
***11 AM to 2 PM PST each day***
With President Biden and California native Vice President Harris Kamala Harris just taking office, policy experts discuss how we can advance a free market policy agenda during the new Democratic administration.
They will offer their perspective on how a Biden administration will impact key issues affecting the Golden State. They will also discuss market-based policy ideas that could achieve bipartisan consensus in 2021 and beyond on key California issues including homelessness, health care, water, school choice, and economic recovery.
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Michael Thom – Taxing Sin
PRI's Next Round Podcast
January 11, 2021
Michael Thom, professor at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, discusses his new book Taxing Sin. Prof. Thom reviews the history of sin taxes, which goes back for hundreds of years, and the traditional sin taxes, such as alcohol and tobacco taxes. He also discusses new 21st century sin taxes – soda, plastic bags, and marijuana. Tim Anaya also provides highlights from Governor Newsom’s proposed 2021 budget.
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Government incompetence deprives people of COVID-19 vaccines
The Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
January 12, 2021
Inexplicably, the government is moving with no real sense of urgency. In December in New York City, vaccinations effectively weren’t happening on weekends and holidays. This weekend, about a month after Pfizer and BioNTech received an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for their shot, two round-the-clock vaccine clinics finally opened in the city.
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PRI’s Bartlett Cleland Quoted in Federal Data Privacy Article
Cybersecurity Dive | Samantha Schwartz
January 9, 2021
“Right now it’s about how much is changing on Capitol Hill. In the end both chambers are almost exactly divided on privacy legislation,” said Bartlett Cleland, senior fellow for Technology and Innovation at Pacific Research Institute, in an email. “Perhaps now that environment is present in Congress, but I think it’s a bit too early to really know.”
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A New Year, A Promising New Education Model
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Lance Izumi
January 13, 2021
Confronted with student-learning catastrophes during the COVID crisis, some states, according to a new Pacific Research Institute briefing paper, erected obstacles for charters schools. For its part, Congress mainly protected the status quo in the $900 billion COVID relief bill enacted just before the New Year.
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Dr. Henry Miller Talks Moderna/Pfizer Vaccine Impact by Age on the Lars Larson Show
The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
January 12, 2021
One of the main points Dr. Miller makes is the difference in how the two vaccines have performed in various age groups. With the Moderna vaccine, data shows that it is more effective with older Americans. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the Pfizer vaccine had better efficacy with all ages.
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