Escuela de la Raza Unida sprang from a fight for educational freedom in the Hispanic farmworker community in southern California. It’s yet more evidence of the politically diverse roots of school choice in America.
Tag: California
Yin v. Yang
Cali libertarians counter school choice plan with pitch of their own This is the latest installment in our series on the center-left roots of school choice, and Part III of a serial about school choice efforts in late ‘70s California. Part II included a closer look at U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan[Read More…]
The trouble with California’s test scores
by Alan Bonsteel Public school test scores are almost always suspect. The tests are rarely secure, and the actual questions are often known to teachers in advance. Excluding low-performing students is easy, and large numbers of the weakest students never get tested because they have dropped out. On November 7, 2011,[Read More…]
Californians like charters
From the Los Angeles Times: Charter schools have won over about half of California voters, but these independent, non-traditional public schools are not widely viewed as the solution to the state’s education problems, according to a new poll. Among those surveyed in the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, 52% had[Read More…]
How Jerry Brown makes a case for parental empowerment
Editor’s note: This entry comes from Peter H. Hanley, the executive director of the American Center for School Choice, which last week joined an alliance with redefinED. California Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto message for a bill that would have expanded the criteria that the state’s Academic Performance Index (API) would[Read More…]
California board gives OK to parent trigger rules
From the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert: The State Board of Education today gave tentative approval to rules outlining how parents may petition to dramatically restructure their children’s low-performing schools. The nine-member board voted unanimously to provide a final 15-day comment period before they vote in September to officially adopt the[Read More…]