Jun 16, 2012
A Smart ALEC Threatens Public Education
Coordinated efforts to introduce model legislation aimed at defunding and dismantling public schools is the signature work of this conservative organization.
…Today, ALEC calls this approach “choice” and renames vouchers “scholarships,” but its aim is clear: De-fund and dismantle public schools. While many other right-wing organizations support this agenda, ALEC is the mechanism for implementing it through its many pieces of model legislation that propose legislative methods for de-funding public schools, particularly low-income, urban schools.
The motivation for dismantling the public education system—creating a system where schools do not provide for everyone—is ideological, and it is motivated by profit. The corporate members on ALEC’s education task force include representatives from the Friedman Foundation, Goldwater Institute, Evergreen Education Group, Washington Policy Center, and corporations providing education services such as Sylvan Learning and K-12, Inc. All stand to benefit from public funding sent in their direction.
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Jun 16, 2012 @ 22:25:27
ALEC, Broad, DeVos, Murdoch, Pearson, Rhee, Walton, and like-minded forces are mounting a full-scale attack on the very concept of universal free public education. They are striving to return us to the British model of education — quality education and university finishing schools for the upper upper classes, largely dedicated to furnishing the scions of the privileged classes with social hob-nobbing skills. For everyone else, rote training in the skills of tradesman — doctors, tutors, and rude mechanicals — whatever it takes to maintain the life and luxuries of the lords and ladies they serve.
Jun 16, 2012 @ 23:16:17
Privatized schools which can be operated very economically for the 99%. Teach them to deny climate change, that the sun revolves around the earth, and the earth is flat.
Now that they have climbed into the 1% they are intent on pulling the ladder up behind them so that they can stay exclusive.
Pure, simple, class warfare.