“When the ALEC’s cash-for-kids model is put before the voters, it is resoundingly rejected. In 27 statewide referenda on the topic, voters rejected vouchers on average 2-1. But as long as ALEC ‘models’ continue to garner bipartisan support facilitated by corporate campaign contributions or are slipped into state budgets in the dead of night — ALEC will have continued success with the ‘transformation’ of the American educational system into a profit-driven enterprise.
The ALEC Education agenda not only ‘converts a public good into something private, says [chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin Julie] Mead, but private schools ‘don’t have the same responsibility [as public schools] to serve everybody, which diminishes public access, oversight and accountability.'” http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12175/cashing-kids-139-alec-bills-2013-promote-private-profit-education-model