Sentences with phrase «alec education»

K12's reps at ALEC Education Task Force meetings have been its Senior VP for Government Affairs (lobbying), Bryan Flood, along with its VP for Government Affairs, Don Lee, and its Senior Director of Government Affairs, Bob Fairbank.

The Foundation funded three ALEC members who sat on the ALEC Education Task Force which approved the Parent Trigger Proposal: The Independence Institute, Center for Education Reform, and Pacific Research Institute.

«Parent Trigger» was adopted by the ALEC Education Task Force at the 2010 States & Nation Policy Summit, December 3, 2010.

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Since 2005, ALEC has offered a template law called «The Virtual Public Schools Act» to introduce online education.

Meanwhile, ALEC has continued to slip laws written by education - tech lobbyists onto the books.

In August, at ALEC's annual conference in New Orleans, the education task force officially adopted Bush's ten elements agenda.

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The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

Then she, too, blasted all her bête - noires: Democrats for Education Reform, Jeb Bush, Eli Broad, ALEC, Govs. Snyder, Walker, Corbitt, Jindal and Brownback, the Walton family and — what would a union leader diatribe be without them?

In 2006 the University of Chicago economist told ALEC that the ideal way to get to a system in which parents control the education of their children would be «to abolish the public school system and eliminate all the taxes that pay for it.»

What you never hear at ALEC is any discussion about improving public education.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks to a packed crowd at an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference July 20, 2017, in at the Hyatt Regency in Denver.

The ABCs of ALEC's education push is about anything but children in public schools.

Most of these privatizing, ALEC - type, corporate think - tank financed educational reforms are about dismantling public education while destroying teachers unions.

Despite the American Legislative Council's tentative embrace of Donald Trump's presidency, they are foaming at the mouth for the now - endless opportunities to further privatize public education — a key ALEC goal they have been promoting and pushing for decades.

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Ladner works for Jeb's Foundation for Excellence in Education, writes the K - 12 Education Report Card for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and is a fellow at the Friedman Foundation for School Choice / Ed Choice and the Goldwater Institute.

Those politicians who fall for the «ALEC treatment» become puppets who push the conservative, right - wing group's education policies and proposals back home — legislation designed to benefit ALEC's wealthy benefactors and turn a profit on the backs of students without any regard for their educational wellbeing.

ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits.

ALEC's Education Task Force is co-chaired by Utah state Sen. Howard Stephenson (R - 11).

ISTA President Teresa Meredith said «ALEC has driven the privatization of public education in Indiana.

But even if we eliminated the big bad hand of the federal government in education reform laws, state charter laws abound and ALEC is ready for the State to control education reform.

ALEC also seeks to advance the privatization of public institutions such as public education, public transportation, public utilities, state lotteries, and other municipal and state services.

The Portland Press Herald's award - winning special report on virtual schools in the state of Maine showed how K12 works with advocacy organizations, including Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to pass legislation that benefits for - profit education pEducation and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to pass legislation that benefits for - profit education peducation providers.

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ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single - sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students.

ALEC supports «more choices in education both as a matter of principle and as a promising solution to the increasing challenges facing America's K - 12 education system.»

Unfortunately, ISTA and other progressive groups disagree with ALEC members» ideas to fix government and to improve the education opportunities for students.

It recently got a seat, for example, on the corporate board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where for years it has also paid for a seat and vote on ALEC's «Education and Workforce Development» Task Force, which advances a «cash for kids» lobbying agenda.

At the time, ALEC's education task force was chaired by the for - profit education firm Connections Academy, which specializes in K - 12 online education.

ALEC has pushed education vouchers, which use public funds to pay for private schools, for years.

«In 2004 when the «model» bill was drafted and approved, both K12 Inc. and Connections Academy were part of the «School Choice Subcommittee of ALEC's Education Task Force, according to an archived version of ALEC's website from February 2005.

In the National Education Association's pantheon - of - evil, ALEC dwells alongside its most loathed: Rebecca Friedrichs, Scott Walker and the Koch Brothers.

In the education sphere, ALEC holds that parents should be in charge of their children's education by allowing them to have choices — charter schools, voucher programs, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts, etc. — that would «allow each child the opportunity to reach his or her potential.»

Through ALEC, corporations have both a VOICE and a VOTE on specific state laws to change the American education system.

For an updated look at ALEC's education agenda in Wisconsin, see the Center for Media and Democracy's in - depth report, «ALEC Exposed in Wisconsin: The Hijacking of a State.»

Watch Julie Underwood, the eighth dean of the UW - Madison School of Education, discuss ALEC's school privatization agenda.

In a more sober moment, Helen Farias, a local union leader from the Sweetwater Education Association intoned, «The types of legislation ALEC promotes will create a two - tiered educational system, one for the privileged and one for the rest of us.»

Another major player in the mass school closings movement is the notorious American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which openly seeks to privatize public education.

In many cases, the anti-public school, pro-cyber school legislation was a result of aggressive lobbying and political involvement by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the member of its Digital Learning Subcommittee, a group of education reform entrepreneurs that includes K12 Inc..

At the annual conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this year, Dr. Steve Perry — a liberal charter school leader and passionate educational choice advocate — spoke about the poor state of K — 12 education for families of color and those in poverty and inspired the audience with his ideas on how to bridge the political divide to advance universal educational choice.

He also serves on NCSL's State Policy and Research for Early Education (SPREE) Working Group as well as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

He worked to benefit cyber charters and K12 specifically when he was Governor of Florida, and in the ensuing years his Foundation for Excellence in Education has been working with ALEC to make it easier for cyber charters, including K12 Inc., to expand nationally.

In 2008, the Show - Me Institute released a «policy study» titled «The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri,» and that same year, Jones introduced a tuition tax credit bill titled the «Children's Education Freedom Act,» which reflected the ALEC «Great Schools Tax Credit Act.»

It is a member of ALEC, and many of the education initiatives it promotes appear to have their roots in ALEC «model» legislation, such as tuition tax credits, parent trigger legislation, and attacks on union rights.

Together, Jones and the Show - Me Institute — backed with Sinquefield cash, and using ALEC model legislation — have pushed an education privatization agenda in the state.

State Representative Chris Taylor, a Democrat from Madison, just got back from another American Legislative Exchange Council conference, and concluded: «The issue of the moment for ALEC is public education — that is, undermining it.»

They are heavily funded by a handful of millionaires and billionaires and passed through groups like Stand for Children, ALEC, Democrats for Education Reform, and 50CAN, who use their funding to advocate for privatization, for high - stakes testing, for evaluating teachers by test scores, and for stripping teachers of any due process so that experienced teachers may easily be replaced by newcomers who will work at entry - level wages and leave without ever collecting a pension.

Members and supporters of PAA affiliate MecklenburgACTS will spend Friday, May 11, calling attention to the destructive education legislation that ALEC has promoted, legislation that increases high - stakes testing, promotes school vouchers and online charter schools and undercuts the teaching profession.

While Rhee's influence — or at least her starpower — has receded somewhat, the reach of ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) and Charles and David Koch continues to extend far and wide across the education spectrum.