Education

Top CA GOP senator backs bilingual ed

A notable Golden State Republican just made a U-turn on 16 years of education policy: Sens. Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar. He jointed majority Democrats in a vote of the California Senate Education Committee to recommended adding an initiative to the 2016 ballot that would restore bilingual education to the

Brown’s CalSTRS fix hammers districts, protects teachers

Chris Reed May 14, 2014

Contrary to the impression given by some of the current coverage of Sacramento’s attempts to shore up the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the underfunding problem hasn’t been completely ignored for all these years. Here’s what I wrote about the

$TX routs CA in education test scores$

TX routs CA in education test scores

Chris Reed May 13, 2014

Every time I write or speak on a radio show favorably about Texas compared with California, I get harsh online comments, emails and phone calls. The usual theme isn’t just that California is a nicer place to live. It’s that

Support for boosting school taxes drops

Wayne Lusvardi May 1, 2014

Proposition 13 still garners broad support across California 36 years after the tax-limitation measure was passed. According to the latest opinion poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, support for loosening Prop. 13’s two-thirds vote requirement for approving local

Honors belie years of gloom-and-doom talk about UC system

Chris Reed May 1, 2014

For at least seven years, we’ve heard University of California officials and Democratic lawmakers describe budget “cuts” at UC as being so devastating they threatened the system’s elite reputation. I recall hearing surrogates for Jerry Brown say in 2010 that