Sentences with phrase «promotes alec»

The Heartland Institute still promotes ALEC's «Environmental Literacy Improvement Act» on its website to this day.

Within ALEC, every state has a legislator partnered with a lobbyist, who together act as state co-chairs to raise cash for the organization and promote the ALEC agenda through «model» legislation.

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In September 2014 Chair Eric Schmidt announced on NPR that Alphabet had ended membership in ALEC, an organization that assists legislators and companies to promote model legislation.

Common Cause has requested that the IRS investigate ALEC's 501 (c)(3) status for participating in a significant amount of lobbying activity by promulgating corporate - sponsored model bills and providing resources to the legislators promoting those bills.

The Won't Back Down movie and the 8/17 Teacher Rocks concert are propaganda for the parent trigger law created by charter school operators and promoted by ALEC.

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.

Corporations such as Pearson and the right - wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are promoting a dangerous version of «innovation.»

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.

This organization works closely with ALEC and the Koch Bros. / Americans for Prosperity to promote passage of model legislation and influence political outcomes, so it was natural that after ALEC came under fire for its secretive nature, participants sought shelter within the SPN.

Parents Across America was one of the first organizations to shine a light on the nefarious activities of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council which promotes privatization of our schools, through charters, vouchers, and online learning.

The WBD movie promotes a parent trigger law created by charter school operators and promoted by ALEC, which wrote the Stand Your Ground law.

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.

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.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is advancing the «principles of free markets» and makes claims that they promote...

Conservative 501 (c) 4) advocacy group that promotes the school privatization agenda via the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other avenues

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.

ALEC has promoted mass school closures through parent trigger laws and A-F grading systems for schools, while simultaneously promoting charter school expansion.

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.»

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.

Since then, model legislation based on the Parent Trigger has been written and promoted by ALEC, the shadowy organization backed by the Koch brothers that has a radical right - wing agenda.

Since then, similar bills have been introduced in many states around the country, with language written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC), an organization that promotes a right - wing agenda.

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 parent trigger was first promoted by a small charter school operator in California, it was taken up and launched into hyperdrive by two controversial right - wing organizations: the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Heartland Institute.

Then, SPN published a document titled «You Can Too» in which it promoted the successful campaign to pass Right to Work in Michigan using the ALEC model.

ALEC has issued «model legislation» or resolutions denying climate change, promoting climate change denial in schools, and supporting offshore drilling, among other bills.

(Suppression of minority voting is a historic ALEC priority, along with opposition to wind and solar and promoting climate - science disinformation.)

The Washington Times also happens to be closely tied to ALEC — a Koch Brothers - funded organization that promotes climate change denialism and subverts efforts to incentivize renewable energy.

E-cig companies have been making the rounds at groups like ACSH as well as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN) in search of third parties to help promote its product and derail regulation.

To ensure that the energy market remains dominated by its fossil fuel company funders, ALEC promotes an array of «model» bills that undermine efforts to protect the environment.

«ALEC has also been accused of promoting model policy that advocates for the teaching of «climate denial» in schools.

ALEC and Heartland have shared numerous staff and «experts» over the years, including Sandy Liddy Bourne, who was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999 - 2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent.

ExxonMobil and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are running an illegal scheme to promote the oil giant's climate denial policies and legislative agenda in violation of U.S. tax law governing charitable organizations, the Center for Media Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause charged today.

Exxon has paid substantial sums to serve in a leadership capacity at ALEC, both on the group's corporate board and on energy - related issue task forces, where corporations introduce «model» legislation and hold de facto veto power over what bills are subsequently promoted by ALEC.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), allows member corporations to pay to ghostwrite model legislation and then promote it in states around the country, mostly among right - wing state legislators.

Dozens of reports, drafted by BHI and released by SPN member think tanks at the state level, promote the agenda contained in the model legislation from ALEC.

ALEC has produced a number of model bills aimed at promoting dirty energy and preventing government at the local, state, and federal levels from addressing climate change.

ALEC is an industry - backed group that promotes «model» legislation on a range of topics, much of it controversial.

[12] The company «has a rich history of greenwashing and working with companies that promote climate change denial,» as Vice has written, including the American Petroleum Institute (API), ALEC, and E.On.

Despite ALEC's efforts to promote climate change denial among U.S. politicians, there is in fact wide consensus that the earth is warming because of human activity.

Easterly's work, including his presentation to ALEC, is also promoted by the Midwest Ozone Group, a group whose members include ACCCE, American Electric Power and Duke Energy.

Legislators violate ALEC's core mission of promoting «free markets,» giving their fossil fuel sponsors a pass and attacking incentives for their clean competitors at the expense of human health, clean air, clean water and a stable climate.

The following is also taken from CMD's Sourceawtch records: ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Meeting (2011) Sourcewatch reports Page Faulk, Chamber Vice President, presented «The Promoting Merit in «Merit Selection» Act» model legislation at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at ALEC's 2011 meeting.

Perhaps most alarmingly, ALEC is spearheading attacks on our democracy and civil rights, promoting Voter ID legislation and other bills intended to make it more difficult for people to vote and participate in our democracy.

ALEC more broadly demonstrates an attack against state action on climate change and renewable energy, promoting laws and resolutions that undermine state's abilities to address climate change and expand clean energy.

ALEC's mission is to promote free markets, individual liberty, and federalism.

During ALEC conferences, legislators and lobbyists get an equal vote on «model» legislation, which ALEC then promotes to state legislators.

For many years, ALEC has promoted climate change denial to state legislators during its annual conferences.

ALEC (you may know), or the American Legislative Exchange Council, is the influential, secretive organization that writes state bills to promote the agenda of corporate America.