How Scholars, Parents Are Fighting the ‘Communist Education Deep State’

Commentary Lance Izumi has been my go-to source for 30 years on both California education issues and schooling in general. The Koret Senior Fellow and senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) spoke Nov. 30 before local business and community leaders at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach. Among many topics, he discussed his recent book, “The Great Parent Revolt: How Parents and Grassroots Leaders Are Fighting Critical Race Theory [CRT] in America’s Schools.” It was written with Wenyuan Wu, the executive director of the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, and McKenzie Richards, a PRI policy associate. Mr. Izumi first brought up the recent Harvard case of the U.S. Supreme Court, which finally ruled affirmative action violated civil rights laws. It put education and other institutions back on the proper footing of Martin Luther King’s Jr.’s maxim, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” California already advanced that with Proposition 209 from 1996. But the court made it national....