Schooling in the Ownership Society: ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort

Schooling in the Ownership Society: ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort:

ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort

by Mike Klonsky

Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida.

Yesterday, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation gathered at an "island" resort on the coast of Florida for a so-called "education academy" sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). There were no students or teachers invited to the Ritz resort. Instead, legislators, representatives from right-wing think tanks and for-profit education corporations met behind closed doors, in the words of PR Watch's' Dustin Beilke , "to channel their inner Milton Friedman and promote the radical transformation of the American