The Washington Policy Center, or should I say ALEC, and the future of our children | Seattle Education

The Washington Policy Center, or should I say ALEC, and the future of our children | Seattle Education:

The Washington Policy Center, or should I say ALEC, and the future of our children

by seattleducation2011

From the same people who state that  any efforts made in our state to address climate change are a waste of time, post reports from ALEC and have ties to the organization,  comes another bit of “research” by Liz Finne, self-proclaimed expert on all things education who cranks out policy papers based on her views or others who sponsor this “public charity” organization and self-proclaimed “think tank”, the Washington Policy Center. Ms Finne, who is an attorney with no experience or degrees in education,  just produced yet another opinion piece shrouded in “research based policy” on why schools in Washington State need to be privatized, her interpretation of a recently issued CREDO report.

Unfortunately our representative from the 36th District, Reuven Carlyle, has chosen this conservative think tank as one of his go-to sources of informationwhen making decisions as Chairman of the House Finance committee in Olympia this year. We’ll have to see how that goes because the policies that come out of