“Won’t Back Down” Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal
by Mary Bottari and Sara Jerving — September 19, 2012 PR Watch, Center for Media and Democracy
- Projects: ALEC Exposed
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.
ALEC brings together major American corporations and right-wing legislators to craft and vote on “model” bills