Georgia & North Carolina for profit college deregulation tied to ALEC
Business, Education, PoliticsFeb 22, 2012In an article written for Truthout.org, entitled: How North Carolina’s Shock Doctrine Artists Are Resegregating Higher Education, I describe how in 2010, an alliance of conservative republicans took over the North Carolina legislature for the first time in 100 years and are now busy implementing legislation which can be traced back to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The article specifically looks at how the NC state legislature has weakened the licensing and regulation of for-profit colleges by wiping out public regulation of the for-profit college industry by shifting power and control of licensing and regulation to a new private board created to rubber stamp licenses and allegedly ‘regulate’ the burgeoning industry (http://www.truth-out.org/how-north-carolinas-shock-doctrine-artists-are-resegregating-higher-education/1329494334).
ALEC is not simply a front group for corporate interests; it is actually a working group of corporate heavyweights that are bent on buying