Sunday, March 27, 2011

Warning to parents about ALEC and its draft education legislation « Parents Across America

Warning to parents about ALEC and its draft education legislation « Parents Across America

Warning to parents about ALEC and its draft education legislation




See the message below from a PAA member in Texas, Karen Miller. Karen is forwarding information about William Cronon, a noted historian at UW-Madison, who wrote about ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization backed by business interests that circulates draft legislation in every state capital, including anti-union legislation approved in Wisconsin.
In retaliation, Cronon has now had his emails FOILed by the Wisconsin GOP party.
As Karen points out, ALEC has a number of damaging education model bills, including legislation promoting the spread of virtual schools (a tremendous profit potential for