Lance Izumi

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in classroom, positive woman teacher introduces children to concept and history of LGBT community

California teachers union shortchanges students with left-wing activism

Lance Izumi · June 2, 2026 7:00 am

Blue state parents turn to home schooling

Lance Izumi · February 14, 2022 12:00 am

In this Oct. 9, 2019 photo, Donya Grant, right, works on a homeschool lesson with her daughter Mabry, 8, in their home in Monroe, Wash. Grantâs family is part of a group of people who have brought a lawsuit against the Monroe School District, alleging that the district had never tested for PCBs contamination at the Sky Valley Education Center school in Monroe, Wash., and had not followed a state policy to regularly inspect old light fixtures, though it had known since at least 2000 that many contained PCBs. Grant has homeschooled all of her children since they stopped attending Sky Valley in 2016 for health reasons they say were related to toxins present at the school.

Parents unhappy about school policies look to school choice

Lance Izumi · October 15, 2021 4:00 am

Racial preferences or school choice? How to improve education for non-white students

Lance Izumi · July 17, 2020 4:00 am

Pictured is an empty classroom, with the focus on one orange chair among a row, with a chalkboard at the front of the room beyond.

Coronavirus school shutdowns foster online learning alternatives

Lance Izumi · April 1, 2020 4:00 am

Losing to China: US students perform poorly on key international test

Lance Izumi · December 6, 2019 5:00 am

Illinois government worker Mark Janus talks during an interview before walking into the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 26, 2018.

Even post-Janus, worker freedom remains at risk in some states

Lance Izumi · October 15, 2019 4:32 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington.

The wisdom of Trump’s plan to merge Departments of Education and Labor

Lance Izumi · July 9, 2018 4:00 am

Students from charter, private, parochial and home schools, participate in a school choice proponents rally Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., as prospects remain unclear for House and Senate bills that would expand programs to spend public money to pay for students to attend private schools.

Charter schools are using innovation to help kids with special needs

Lance Izumi · May 25, 2018 4:00 am

In this picture, several children are trying to learn sign language.

Put military families first, not school bureaucracies

Lance Izumi · April 27, 2018 12:00 am

Mitchell Winehurst taught at Jefferson High School (pictured above) and other schools in the Portland, Ore., Public School system for years. He then surrendered his teaching license in 2016 after multiple allegations of sexual harassment. (Steve Morgan / Wikimedia Commons)

Harvey Weinsteins and their enablers also run our public schools

Lance Izumi · November 3, 2017 4:01 am

Common Core was the brainchild of political, education and business elites — and continues to benefit them. (AP Photo/Christine Armario, File)

Trump’s right — the system is rigged. Look at Common Core

Lance Izumi · August 3, 2016 4:03 am