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ALEC cashing in on kids with education bills

ALEC has a strong presence in Kansas and a strong anti-public education ideology. This article from 2013 connects the dots and shows several ALEC bills in Kansas that year. http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12175/cashing-kids-139-alec-bills-2013-promote-private-profit-education-model...
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ALEC tax task force led by tobacco lobbyist forms education subcommittee

We haven’t done much posting on ALEC in a while, but here’s a story we did a post on last year when the ALEC convention was in Kansas City. “ALEC’s Tax and Fiscal Policy task force, headed by Altria/Phillip Morris’ Amanda Klum and New Hampshire State Rep. Ken Weyler, is adding a Joint Education Finance Working Group at this week’s meeting. “Why is a tax task force led by a cigarette lobbyist forming an education subcommittee? Perhaps to advance tuition “tax credit” policies to subsidize charter and religious schools, a scheme dubbed “neo-vouchers” by critics… “ALEC’s Education task...
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Atlanta news station investigates ALEC meeting in Georgia

We’ve done many posts on ALEC, an organization that pairs corporate lobbyists with legislators behind closed doors. ALEC has a low-tax, anti-public-education ideology and many Kansas legislators are members, Sen. President Susan Wagle and House Speaker Ray Merrick are ALEC board members, and KPI’s Dave Trabert was a member of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force. We’ve seen multiple ALEC bills become Kansas law, including last year’s corporate tax credit scholarship bill. The Spring Task Force Summit was held in Savannah, GA this year. Watch this footage from an Atlanta TV station. http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/investigations/2015/05/21/investigators-legislators-and-corporate-lobbyists-meet-in-secret-at-georgia-resort/27695105/...
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