Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member:

Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member

by Mike Klonsky

Murdoch (l) and Joel Klein.

No big surprise here. Adam Peshek, who staffs ALEC's Education Task Force, told Education Week that News Corp. has been a member of both ALEC's Education Task Force and Communications and Technology Task Force since January 2012.

This according to PR Watch: 

When News Corp. acquired Wireless Generation, a for-profit online education, software, and testing corporation, for $360 million in cashin 2010, Rupert Murdoch called the for-profit K-12 education industry"a $500 billion sector in the US alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed." A few weeks