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CAPITAL IDEAS: The Education Landscape: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
PRI Capital Ideas | Lance Izumi
September 7, 2021
For example, the prominent research firm McKinsey & Company released a study in July that not only showed huge learning losses among American children due to the pandemic, but also shocking estimates of the long-term economic impacts these learning losses would have on the United States.
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Saving California, PRI's new book, is focused on policy changes that could help restore some of California's lost luster - regardless of what politician runs our massive state government apparatus. The authors are all current or former Californians, people with deep expertise in their respective policy areas. Although their chapters include a fair share of criticism of current policy directions - how could they not? - they each propose real-world policy changes that could push the state onto a better track.
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Corey DeAngelis – School Choice and Covid-19
PRI Next Round
September 6, 2021
PRI’s podcast guest this week is Corey DeAngelis, executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute, director of research for the National Federation for Children, and a fellow at the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation. He is interviewed by PRI’s director of the Young Leaders Circle, Evan Harris. They discuss all things school choice and why it’s even more important now that the flaws in the public school system have been exposed by the pandemic. Ro and Tim also discuss the latest California recall polls.
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Blame the FDA for closing schools
Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
September 6, 2021
This crisis was avoidable. By showing no sense of urgency to approve COVID-19 shots for children under 12, the Food and Drug Administration has left children vulnerable — not just to the virus but to the emotional and social harm caused by missing in-person interactions with their teachers and peers.
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The CDC’s Legally Questionable Extension of the Rent Moratorium
Right By the Bay | McKenzie Richards
September 9, 2021
No greater recent example of this exists than when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under the direction of President Biden, attempted to extend the rent moratorium. Nowhere in U.S. Code: Title 42 – which outlines the responsibilities of the CDC approved by the legislative branch — is the health agency granted such broad authority.
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Could Labor Day Push for Higher Minimum Wage Lead to More Work Being Done by Robots?
Right By the Bay | Kerry Jackson
September 6, 2021
Replacing humans with robots is inevitable. We’ve already seen self-checkouts at retail stores, and ordering kiosks at restaurants. But now machines are performing more complex work. A few years ago, a Pasadena restaurant “hired” an “employee” that simply went by the name Flippy to cook its burgers.
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