Education Votes: "ALEC has made it a top priority to fundamentally change the nation’s public school system, not only to divert taxpayer dollars to money-making ventures, but also to squeeze the life out of the unions that protect educators’ ability to advocate for students. Education-focused ALEC bills are tailored state to state, but many push to:
Privatize education through charter schools, voucher programs and tax incentives, obscuring these programs’ true purpose with positive names like “parent choice” and “innovation schools”
Clear the way for online (often for-profit) at-home schooling options that benefit corporations, not students
Reduce local control of schools by school boards and parents, and increase the influence of the private sector
Use “marketplace standards” to evaluate educators and students, which means more standardized testing and reporting
Obliterate the unions that help keep our tax dollars working for students and schools"
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