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Jennifer Bentley

Education Administrator in the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division

California Department of Education

Jennifer Bentley is an education administrator of the Instructional Resources Unit (IRU) in the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division (CFIRD) at the California Department of Education. She led the science and health content areas for CFIRD prior to becoming the administrator for the IRU. She started her career in education as a secondary science teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where she taught high school science for eight years. She earned a MA in education as well as her teaching credential at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Education.