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2 months ago | 
edsource.org | Betty Marquez Rosales |Emma Gallegos |Lance T. Izumi |Mallika Seshadri
News Brief Monday February 3, 2025 9:31 am Amid executive orders from the Trump administration targeting undocumented immigrants, school board members, union leaders and organizers came together to oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement and reaffirm the Sacramento City Unified School District will remain a safe-haven, CapRadio reported. School board President Jasjit Sing was one of many who came together in solidarity, including Spanish-speaking, Black, Hmong and South Asian organizers.
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2 months ago | 
edsource.org | Betty Marquez Rosales |Emma Gallegos |Lance T. Izumi |Mallika Seshadri
News Brief Monday February 3, 2025 9:51 am The Trump administration has been temporarily blocked from freezing federal assistance for education, disaster relief, healthcare and law enforcement, as a U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island judge announced a temporary restraining order. The order comes amid a federal lawsuit involving California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta and 22 other State Attorney Generals.
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2 months ago | 
edsource.org | Emma Gallegos |Lance T. Izumi |Mallika Seshadri |Monica Velez
News Brief Friday January 31, 2025 3:33 pm After the U.S. Department of Education rolled back Title IX protections on Friday for students based on gender identity, California’s state superintendent of public instruction assured state law won’t be impacted. Last year, the Biden Administration extended Title IX protections so students who are discriminated against based on gender identity would be protected.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
U.S. high schools will graduate a record 3.9 million students in 2025 before entering a long decline that threatens the future of higher education, a report shows. In findings published Wednesday, the nonprofit Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education projected the headcount of public and private high school graduates will fall by more than half a million — or 13% — to less than 3.4 million by 2041, reversing decades of growth.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
Watch the entire interview on Midday Dee Time here.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
Listen to the entire interview on the Lars Larson Show here.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
I sat next to her at the luncheon at which we were both speaking. An unassuming person, one would never know that Cathy was a pioneer in our armed forces. But then she got up to speak. As I listened to her I was struck by her words. In her short talk, Cathy was able to get to the heart of the motivations, the qualities, and the challenges of being a veteran. She acknowledged that being a veteran means many things and each individual veteran has his or her own experiences and memories.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
Conservative analysts say there is already evidence of defiance. They pointed to numbers in the database showing that shares of Asian students fell by 6 percentage points at Yale and Duke this fall, even though the Supreme Court case involved claims of discrimination against Asian American applicants. “Such drops in Asian-American admissions would not be possible under true race neutrality,” said attorney Lance Izumi, an education policy analyst at the free-market Pacific Research Institute.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
Dr. Lance Izumi, senior director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Education, recently wrote “The Great Classroom Collapse.” The book centers around a fundamental question: Why can’t kids today read or do math? In an attempt to answer that question, “The Great Classroom Collapse” is divided into three sections:The equity agenda and the collapse of merit and rigorThe collapse of reading skillsThe collapse of math skillsRead the entire interview in the Independent Women’s Forum.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
pacificresearch.org | Lance T. Izumi
Recently, as I was sitting in the dentist’s chair, I mentioned to my dental hygienist that I had just written a new book entitled The Great Classroom Collapse, which tells the stories of students, parents, and teachers who are experiencing the implosion of math and reading learning in America’s schools. In response, she launched into a description of how her own child had been the victim of ineffective progressive teaching methods, especially in math.
