PAMELA BENIGNO
Director
Email: Pam@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536 x115
REGINA COMPOSANTO
Research Associate
ROSS IZARD
Senior Fellow
CAROL VAN DYKE
School Choice for Kids
Website Manager
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We promote issues such as school choice, school accountability, and teachers’ rights through our in-house publications, print media, Internet, radio, television, and legislative briefings. Calling for greater involvement of parents in the role of educating children, Independence Institute’s Education Policy Center was the first in the Colorado to promote ideas such as educational vouchers, charter schools, educator accountability, and public school report cards.
OUR VISION Access to affordable, reliable, abundant, safe energy and a clean environment are not mutually exclusive. At E2P we envision a Colorado where every person is in control of his or her own energy and environmental destiny. Private property owners are in the best position to protect their land and environment, and the choice of energy resources and how they are utilized should come from the demands of an innovative and free market. What is the role of government? To remain neutral, let markets work, let individuals innovate, limit regulations, and refrain from picking winners and losers.
OUR PRINCIPLES
• People first
• Celebrate prosperity
• Innovation over regulation
• Commonsense conservation
• Primacy of private property rights
• Results over rhetoric
• Reject cynicism
• Embraces our entrepreneurial spirit and optimism that we can have affordable power, responsible domestic energy development, and a clean environment.
• Puts individuals in the driver’s seat and allows them to control their own energy future.
• Lets the choice of energy resources come from the demands of the free market, and not from the preferences of policymakers, lobbyists, or special interest groups.
• Champions private property rights.
• Challenges the 80-year-old, monopoly utility model of electricity generation and distribution.
• Puts states ahead of Washington, D.C.
• Encourages limited and consistent regulations.
• Rejects taxpayer funded subsidies.
• Doesn’t pick winners and losers.
• Welcomes transparency.
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We educate and inform citizens, legislators, opinion-makers and the media about Freedom: individual Freedom, economic Freedom and journalistic Freedom. Since 1985, we’ve put ideas into action through groundbreaking legislation, coalition-building, ballot initiatives and investigative reporting. We are dedicated to advancing policy that protects and advances Freedom.
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