CORY BOOKER IS NO FRIEND OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
Update on January 10, 2017:
We have come across additional information on Cory Booker’s predilection for the corporatization of public schools.
Booker was on the Alliance for School Choice (ASC) Board of Directors from 2004 to 2008 along with Betsy DeVos. Also note that John Walton of the Walton family was a founder of ASC.
To view the source of the document above, go to the program for the Alliance for School Choice Summit in 2008.
According to ALEC exposed:
The Alliance for School Choice (ASC) is a conservative 501(c)(3) non-profit group that promotes the school privatization agenda via the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other avenues. It is affiliated with the 501(c)(4) advocacy group the American Federation for Children.[1] Former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, who was charged with multiple crimes stemming from abuse of his office, is on staff at ASC as Senior Advisor to its Government Affairs Team.[2]
In the organization’s own words, ASC “is the nation’s vanguard organization for promoting, implementing, and enhancing K-12 educational choice. In collaboration with a host of national and state allies, we create opportunities for systemic and sustainable educational reform that puts parents in charge.”[3]
Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
ASC is a member of ALEC’s Education Task Force. Scott Jensen represented the organization on the task force as of July 2011 when he was ASC’s “National Consultant for State Projects” (ALEC also lists him as representing the 501(c)(4) wing of the group, American Federation for Children). Jonathan Nikkila, ASC’s Government Affairs Director, also represented the organization on the task force at that time.[4]
The Alliance for School Choice has generally been focused on defending voucher programs against lawsuits that claim they violate the First Amendment’s establishment clause (or roughly, the idea of CONTINUE READING: Cory Booker is no friend of public education – Seattle Education
