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Woke Math Returns to California
Townhall | May 7, 2022
Lance Izumi
Like the return of the undead, woke math has come back to haunt California’s classrooms and make it even harder for the state’s struggling students to receive a quality education.
Last year, the California Department of Education released the first draft of a new curriculum framework for K-12 mathematics, which would guide teaching in the classroom.
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Expanding Obamacare is a Costly Prescription
Real Clear Policy | Sally Pipes
May 11, 2022
Last month, President Biden proposed fixing the so-called “family glitch,” a quirk in Obamacare’s text that has prevented millions of people from purchasing subsidized coverage through the exchanges.
It’s only the latest attempt to gift more people taxpayer-sponsored health coverage. The result will be rising premiums, fewer coverage options, and ballooning costs for the public.
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Been There, Done That on Attacking Charter Schools
Been There, Done That | Pacific Research Institute
May 9, 2022
Inspired by a recent California law, the Biden Administration has proposed federal regulations that would require new charter schools to “demonstrate community need” before being approved, and also restricts the ability of new and existing charter schools to receive federal funds.
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Public trust, safety, and genetic engineering
Genetic Literacy Project | Henry Miller & Drew L. Kershen
May 10, 2022
Although the public is almost completely unaware, today, more than three-quarters of all food crops have been directly and dramatically altered by humans using various processes, some relatively crude, by random experimentation, taking decades and even centuries, others extremely precise. Irrationally, and unrelated to safety and health, some products are highly regulated while others are virtually unregulated.
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Steven Greenhut on PRI Free Cities Project
PRI Next Round | Steven Greenhut
May 9, 2022
In this podcast, our guest is Steve Greenhut, director of PRI’s new Free Cities Project. The Free Cities Project will regularly release incisive research and analysis on crime, housing, education, homelessness, social mobility and other urban issues through commentaries, briefs, videos, and webinars. Through the project, PRI aims to foster serious thinking and incubate good ideas that will improve America’s cities.
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Climate Change: Adapt or Mitigate
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
May 6, 2022
Along the Sonoma County coast, CalTrans is relocating a stretch of Highway 1 farther inland in response to the ocean taking out about a foot per year of the cliffs overlooking the Pacific. This concept is often referred to as managed retreat ([link removed]) , where entire communities and neighborhoods are forced to deviate from decades of coastal development due to climate change.
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