Author: Lance Christensen

Lance Christensen is Vice President of Government Affairs and Education Policy at California Policy Center, and has nearly two decades of public policy and political experience. Christensen was one of the principal architects of the recent school choice initiative proposal in California and candidate for California Superintendent of Public Instruction on the November 2022 statewide ballot. He has worked as a legislative consultant in the California State Senate, as well as a finance budget analyst at the Department of Finance, and served as chief of staff and senior policy advisor to California State Sen. John Moorlach.

Pretext as Policymaking

June 25, 2025 12:00 pmJune 25, 2025 12:04 pm

In California politics, solving real problems often takes a backseat to appearances. Lawmakers declare a crisis on things like housing, climate, public safety, then rush to “do something,” regardless of whether their action actually helps. What they offer isn’t leadership;...

Don’t Socially Promote Vice President Harris’s Incompetent Education Agenda

October 7, 2024 6:55 pmOctober 7, 2024 6:58 pm

In a 2022 speech at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., Vice President Kamala Harris was trying to show some competency on the issues of mental health. As genuine as she tried to be, she demonstrated just how disconnected...

THUGS Among Us

June 20, 2023 12:45 pmJune 20, 2023 1:17 pm

In a time where parents are treated with hostility by entrenched, anti-parent activists in California’s K-12 schools, there are a number of school board trustees trying to do the right thing by students in their stewardship. Yet, for some reason,...

GLOBE EXCLUSIVE: Empower Schools to Fund the Arts, Don’t Mandate It

October 22, 2022 2:45 amOctober 22, 2022 7:39 am

Californians rightly want their children’s schools to have vibrant arts and music programs. As a father of five, I’m right there with them. I absolutely think that we should be funding arts and music programs a lot more than we...

Gavin Newsom is Right – There’s Much His Replacement Can Do If He’s Recalled

September 4, 2021 8:05 amSeptember 6, 2021 11:59 am

During an August 19th interview with a panic-stricken Gov. Gavin Newsom, reporter Elex Michaelson asked Newsom if there’s really anything a new Republican governor could do with super-duper Democratic majorities in the legislature and with every statewide office in the...