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I used to ride my Yamaha 125 trail bike all over the mountains in Breckenridge, including up Peak 10.
Pamela Benigno has been the Director of the Independence Institute’s influential Education Policy Center since 1997. Pam provides a counterbalance to the education establishment. She isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo to create better learning opportunities for Colorado’s children, stand up for parental rights, and support independent-minded teachers.
Pam has authored and co-authored numerous publications, speaks to local and national groups, and provides commentary as a radio and television guest on K-12 education policy. Her work has been noted in several books and local and national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, School Reform News, Daily Caller, and Townhall Magazine.
Since the late 1980’s Pam has been involved in the passage of private school choice programs.
In 2007 she launched the one-of-a-kind SchoolChoiceForKids.org to educate English and Spanish speakers about educational options offered in Colorado.
In 2005 Pam realized the need to reach school board candidates and members with policy ideas and has since hosted school board candidate policy briefings and mailed the Education Policy Center’s publications to all Colorado school board members and superintendents.
As a former public school educator, Pam has a heart for teachers. The Education Policy Center has an outreach to Independent-minded teachers via IndependentTeachers.org. Pam created the K-12 Policy Roundtable as an outreach to university education majors as they prepare to become future teachers.
As a Biden appointee, Pam serves as a member of the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights. She is the past chair and current board member of the Professional Association of Colorado Educators (PACE). Additionally, she serves on the Colorado League of Charter School’s Governmental Affairs Committee.
Latest Education Policy Center Posts
A Colorado School District’s Dubious Union Agreement Under Scrutiny0
- EdisWatching.org
- September 9, 2019
Until a little over a year ago, public sector unions across the United States frequently employed the practice of collecting “fair share provisions” or “agency fees” from employees who had opted out of full union membership. These payments amounted to a prearranged sum of money designed to correspond solely to the costs of the union’s
READ MOREA Colorado School District’s Dubious Union Agreement Under Scrutiny0
- EdisWatching.org
- September 9, 2019
Until a little over a year ago, public sector unions across the United States frequently employed the practice of collecting “fair share provisions” or “agency fees” from employees who had opted out of full union membership. These payments amounted to a prearranged sum of money designed to correspond solely to the costs of the union’s
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A+ Colorado Releases New Brief about DPS Unified Enrollment0
- EdisWatching.org
- April 17, 2019
Colorado has been a national leader in terms of accessible school choice. The brief by A+ Colorado, School Choice with Unified Enrollment, examines both the opportunities and challenges school choice has offered families in Denver. The district moved to a unified choice enrollment platform in 2012. Before the launch of the unified enrollment platform, SchoolChoice,
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Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Report on Colorado’s Blaine Clauses0
- EdisWatching.org
- October 4, 2018
A newly released report entitled “The Colorado Constitution’s No Aid To Sectarian Institutions Clause and its Impact on Civil Rights,” examines the origins of the Colorado Constitution’s No Aid Clause (known as Blaine Amendments), and the historical and modern applications. The report was authored by members of the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil
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