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Inside ALEC's Education Task Force: Private Players Manipulating Public Education | Alternet

Inside ALEC's Education Task Force: Private Players Manipulating Public Education | Alternet:


Inside ALEC's Education Task Force: Private Players Manipulating Public Education

The author infiltrated ALEC's inner sanctum -- and what she saw was chilling.
 
 
EDITOR'S NOTE: On Monday. we published this video of educator-activist Sabrina Stevens confronting members of ALEC's education task force over their destructive plans for America's schools. Below, she shares more about her experience inside the doors of ALEC's highly secretive proceedings.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”   --Frederic Bastillat
It’s one thing to know that corporate and elitist special interest groups have bought themselves premium access to the inner workings of what’s supposed to