SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the “New Math” focused on teaching abstractions rather than fundamentals. You can find reams of research documenting its failure decades later, but…
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For weeks, Maj. James Carley strategized how he and a group of Marines could create chaos and break down security at Camp Pendleton and other Southern California and Arizona bases that belong to the Marine Corps Installations West command. This week their efforts put their fellow Marines to the test for an annual base security…
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Senator Bill Dodd, D-Napa, bills himself a moderate with pragmatic priorities. So, it’s puzzling that he’d introduce Senate Bill 1380. SB 1380 would authorize school district boards to deny charter school applications if it had closed a school within the past five years. It would also gut county education boards’ authority to overrule the local…
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“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Twenty U.S. cities with the highest home-price-to-income ratios are all in California. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a housing affordability yardstick by Construction Coverage, which tracked median home prices divided by the median annual household income for 384 cities including 79 from…
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A Marine assigned to a helicopter training squadron is dead at Camp Pendleton. A Marine spokesperson with the 3rd Marine Air Wing said the death occurred around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, during “routine military operations.” The cause is under investigation, and the Marine’s identity will not be released until next-of-kin is notified, the…
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Stubborn inflation is likely to mean that the Federal Reserve will wait at least until fall to begin cutting interest rates. Some forecasters think it is possible that policymakers won’t just keep rates “higher for longer,” as investors have been anticipating for several weeks now, but might actually raise them further. “It is a huge…
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The vaunted transition to green energy has hit its share of speed bumps of late – from unwanted EVs piling up on dealers’ lots to soaring electricity prices – but anti-fossil fuel advocates never cease to remind us that better days are ahead. But are they? What about those states that have taken the plunge…
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Q: I am a sitting board member for our HOA and we are coming up next week with our annual board election and a possible change of president (which is badly needed). As of right now, we have only 3 board members present out of 5 due to one moving away and another just resigned.…
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No one wants to get audited when the number-crunchers are Treasury Department-based and coming after you, personally. But all of us can agree that when it comes to ensuring that government itself is spending those tax dollars wisely, we’re audit-friendly. We have a right to know about efficiences, and inefficiencies. That’s why a new plan…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Taylor Fox of San Juan Hills won her third consecutive Division 1 title to lead Orange County divers at the CIF-SS championships in Mission Viejo on Thursday. The county also crowned two boys champions in Nolan Rooker of San Clemente in Division 1…
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