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Friday, April 6, 2012

Weekly Update: Strike in Chicago? NCTQ , and ALEC (finally) Exposed…but will Inslee get a clue? | Seattle Education

Weekly Update: Strike in Chicago? NCTQ , and ALEC (finally) Exposed…but will Inslee get a clue? | Seattle Education:

Weekly Update: Strike in Chicago? NCTQ , and ALEC (finally) Exposed…but will Inslee get a clue?
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It seems that with the tragedy of the shooting of an innocent young man in Florida, the dominoes have started to fall for ALEC.
As described very clearly on The ED Show by Van Jones, ALEC  pushes a right-wing pro big-money agenda. As many of us have been aware of for a while now, their reach has gone as far as our educational system where they have templates that legislators can use to simply plug in the appropriate words and voila! ed reform in a nice package, corporate style. For additional information on how ALEC has affected our school districts around the country, see ALEC Exposed.
This morning I was reading gubernatorial candidate Inslee’s proposals regarding education in the state of Washington and went from concerned to horrified. His words were right out of the ed-reform playbook particularly