Founder(s) | Lovett C. Peters |
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Established | 1988 |
Chair | Adam Portnoy |
Executive Director | Jim Stergios [1] |
Budget | Revenue: $2,178,130 Expenses: $1,822,097 ( FYE September 2015) [2] |
Address | 185 Devonshire Street, Suite 1101, Boston, Massachusetts 02110 |
Location | United States |
Website |
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Pioneer Institute is a free-market think tank based in Boston, Massachusetts. [3] The organization was founded in 1988 by Lovett C. Peters. [4] Pioneer's stated mission is "to develop and communicate dynamic ideas that advance prosperity and a vibrant civic life in Massachusetts and beyond." [5]
Pioneer conducts research in the area of education reform, including charter schools and standards-based education. Pioneer's educational reform work strongly influenced education changes in Massachusetts in the early 1990s. [6] The Institute created a fellowship program to train charter school entrepreneurs, which in 2003 became a separate non-profit organization, the Building Excellent Schools Foundation, which trains charter operators around the nation. [7] The Boston Globe wrote that the Pioneer Institute "has a national profile as the brains of the Common Core opposition." [8] Former Massachusetts Senate President Tom Birmingham, a Democrat, joined the Pioneer Institute in 2015 as Distinguished Senior Fellow in Education. [9]
The Institute also conducts research on healthcare policy, job and business creation, limited and effective state and local government, welfare reform, public pensions, public finance, and government transparency. [10]