What’s Going on In Education?
In her essay, What’s Going On in Education, Director of Government Relations for Christian Home Educators of Colorado Carolyn Martin…
Carolyn Martin
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Carolyn Martin is Director of Government Relations for Christian Home Educators of Colorado, advocating for homeschool freedom and parental rights in education policy.
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Carolyn Martin serves as Director of Government Relations for Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC), where she works to protect homeschooling freedoms and parental rights in Colorado's legislative arena. She monitors education legislation at the Colorado Capitol and advocates for homeschool families against government overreach in education policy.
Martin brings personal experience to her advocacy work. She homeschooled her three children in New York for several years before relocating her family to Colorado in 2004. Her involvement in legislative issues grew as her children matured and she saw increasing threats to homeschool freedoms.
Through her role at CHEC, Martin has become a recognized voice for homeschool freedom in Colorado. She watches for legislation that could impose new requirements or oversight on homeschool families, and advocates for maintaining the minimal regulation that currently exists in Colorado. She also monitors threats to religious liberty and education policy issues that could affect private and home education.
Martin has been particularly outspoken about the potential risks of school choice programs and education savings accounts, warning that government funding often leads to government control. She has also raised concerns about ballot measures that could create new constitutional frameworks affecting parental authority.
Based in Colorado Springs with her husband Todd and their children Grace, Hope, and Jesse, Martin has appeared on the Kim Monson Show since 2020, discussing parental rights, education policy, and threats to homeschool freedom.
Articles by Carolyn Martin
Episodes
5 appearancesOctober 24, 2024
Parental Rights Under Attack as Fluoride Ruling Exposes Public Health Failures
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Amendment 80's hidden dangers, dirty voter rolls exposed, and a landmark fluoride court ruling with Carolyn Martin, Peter Bernegger, and Pam Long.
“It's when you start giving children the right to a quality education and the right to school choice that it runs into problems for me, because of what we're seeing across the nation and the world with this idea of giving children rights, where the state needs to then come in and be the arbiter between the child and the parent.”
October 4, 2024
Colorado Battles Election Integrity and Property Tax Challenges
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Kim Monson examines Amendment 80, voter roll anomalies, Hurricane Helene response, and TABOR protection with Colorado experts on October 4, 2024.
“It's this idea of giving a K-12 child the right to school choice that is problematic and would put a wedge between parent and child because of what we're seeing across the nation and the world in how they're treating parental rights.”
October 28, 2022
Judicial Retention, Voting Republican, and the Hidden Dangers of School Choice Funding
Terri Goon on judicial retention, Rick Turnquist on voting Republican, and Carolyn Martin on school choice funding dangers. October 28, 2022.
“It's parents' fundamental and unalienable right to educate their children. We need to keep pounding that in because the state thinks it's their job. So we need to make sure to get that jurisdiction back to the family.”
July 26, 2021
Awakening vs Wokeism: Liberty Toastmasters Examines the Battle of Ideas
Kim Monson hosts Liberty Toastmasters members discussing awakening versus wokeism, plus Carolyn Martin on Initiative 25 LEAP concerns. July 26, 2021 broadcast.
“any time they're collecting data, they want more data. I mean, we've seen that, right, with the immunization stuff. That's why they wanted all the immunization data in their centralized database. They want all this data on us, and we don't want them to have it. You see, this is the problem. So, yeah, this is total overreach. But if you're going to use one of those programs, I can see why they would want that, right? They want to know what they're getting for their money.”
January 6, 2020
Women of the West Stand for Freedom at the Colorado Capitol
Colorado Politics & Policy
Carolyn Martin, Nicole Hunt, and Megan Kirk preview the Stand for Colorado rally on homeschool, religious, and medical freedom on January 6, 2020.
“And I think that's why I brought out this whole thing about parental rights, really, because home education is founded on parental rights. If we can't, you know, take care of our children. If we can't direct their medical care and their the upbringing of our children, education is just another thing to them, to the people that want to take that away.”
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