Sentences with phrase «alec stated»

Part of the duty of the ALEC state chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC «scholarship fund,» which raises more than $ 600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences, where they meet with lobbyists from corporations like Peabody Energy, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.

ALEC has since distanced itself from the language in the leaked agreement, although it is known that ALEC staff did present the document for board approval, but according to the meeting agenda obtained by CMD, another Peabody lobbyist at the meeting, Kelly Mader, advised those present on the «roles and responsibilities» of being an ALEC state chair.

ALEC states, however, that federal, state and local subsidies pay for at least 30 % of solar power equipment and «often much more», and that every increment of solar power increases overall taxpayer burdens to pay for the subsidies.

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Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealing them.

Until Wednesday, Ohio remained the last state to face ALEC's anti-clean energy efforts this year.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

One high ALEC priority aims to repeal State renewable energy legislation.

In the last two years ALEC lost lost almost 400 state legislators and more than 60 corporations largely due to the group's involvement in the Stand Your Ground law that originally allowed George Zimmerman to walk free after he killed Trayvon Martin.

And Commissioner Robert Burns (R) is a legacy member of ALEC and former Arizona state chair of the organization.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Remember it only takes one legislator with ties to ALEC to obtain «model legislation» from ALEC to proliferate it in a state capitol.

ALEC was also at the heart of the battle between Wisconsin Gov. Walker and collective bargaining including the Wisconsin state union workers back in 2011.

If your state has a «parent trigger,» whereby a 50 percent plus one vote of a school's parent community can convert the entire school, irrevocably, into a charter, that's ALEC.

For instance, Senator Squadron says, it's difficult to determine whether ALEC, incorporated as a 501 - C 3 charity, is a lobbying organization and should be registered with the state ethics commission.

She says her group, which has already filed a complaint with the IRS and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman about ALEC, is now asking the state's ethic commission, JCOPE, to look into it.

A hearing by Senate Democrats explored the influence of the controversial lobby group known as ALEC in New York State.

ALEC has long attacked climate and science policy stating in 2011 that, «Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring, non-toxic and beneficial gas, and it poses no direct threat to public health».

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity FreedomState Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedomstate renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

This has been a long - term agenda item of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate funded bill mill and many State Policy Network «think tanks» and advocacy groups funded by Bradley.

ALEC, the Heartland Institute, and the Beacon Hill Institute all have received money from foundations associated with Charles and David Koch, and each are also part of the State Policy Network, an umbrella group of right - wing organizations that claim adherence to the free market.

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In Tennessee, Republican State Representative Harry Brooks didn't even bother changing the name of ALEC's Virtual Public Schools Act before introducing it as his own legislation.

State Representative Robin Vos, the Wisconsin state chair for ALEC, sponsored the bill codifying Walker's radical expansion of online, for - profit schState Representative Robin Vos, the Wisconsin state chair for ALEC, sponsored the bill codifying Walker's radical expansion of online, for - profit schstate chair for ALEC, sponsored the bill codifying Walker's radical expansion of online, for - profit schools.

ALEC, the thirty - eight - year - old conservative nonprofit, similarly coordinates a fifty - state strategy for right - wing policy.

Parent Trigger legislation, promoted by the right - wing organization American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), has been passed in several states, including California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and is being considered in others.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

It's not surprising that Florida has strong ties to ALEC and is among the first over 25 states to adopt «Stand Your Ground.»

See the new video below, starring Karran Harper Royal, one of PAA's founders, about how ALEC is pushing substandard virtual learning in state legislatures throughout the country, in order to reap huge corporate profits for the privateers and defraud our kids.

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

Opening Plenary The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is known for drafting conservative model educational legislation in states.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

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Along with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), known for its efforts to provide conservative model legislation to GOP lawmakers across the country, the IJ published a report in 2007 titled «School Choice and State Constitutions: A Guide to Designing School Choice Programs.»

In her recent column, state Rep. Chris Taylor argues that the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, and presumably other voucher proponents are «all about tearing down our public - school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.»

Many of the wealthiest corporations in the world are members of ALEC, which uses its vast resources to shower state politicians across the country with expensive gifts, high - priced dinners at fancy restaurants, and vacation junkets at exotic resorts.

She is supportive of efforts by a conservative, pro-business group known as ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create model legislation for school vouchers and similar programs for states to pass in their legislatures.

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

One of the most influential political organizations in the United States, is the American Legislative Exchange Council — known as ALEC.

While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.

And as many know, state lawmakers have been a cheap date for organizations like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).

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 restate charter laws abound and ALEC is ready for the State to control education reState to control education reform.

I'm sure a lot of these movies will be entertaining, but none will be more important or relevant than a half - hour documentary I recently watched: The United States of ALEC.

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 providers.

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 providers.

However, the conversion to charter schools has proven profitable to many U.S. firms such as ALEC member National Heritage Academies, a for - profit charter school management organization operating in eight states, and K - 12, Inc., which promotes «virtual» charter schools as well as «virtual» voucher schools.

Common Cause is screening The United States of ALEC in state capitols around the country.

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.

When a new wave of school choice supporters were swept into power at the state level in November 2010, Heartland saw an opportunity to put the Parent Trigger idea on steroids by bringing it to ALEC, the controversial corporate «bill mill.»