ITPI Commentary in Sector: Education and School Services

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Keeping Education Accountable

02/28/2013

The public education system sustains American democracy. It is one of the most distinct examples of how we come together as a society to encourage diversity, promote social progress and new ideas, and create productive members of our communities. It is based on our fundamental values to be accountable to all Americans and create opportunity for all of our children, regardless of race or religion and without limitations based on family status or economic situation.

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Education and School Services

Bush's Education Nonprofit and Corporate Profits

01/30/2013

Emails between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), founded and chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and conservative state education officials show that the foundation is writing state education laws and regulations in ways that could benefit its corporate funders.

The emails seem to describe a project similar to the American Legislative Exchange’s (ALEC) pay-for-play operation. Corporate donors rub shoulders with state education policy makers while FEE moves the corporate-friendly policy agenda.

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Education and School Services

ALEC and the Privatization of Education

04/27/2012

The American Legislative Exchange (ALEC) is a business-supported organization whose corporate members, along with the legislator members of its task forces, craft model bills on a variety of issues.  They recently announced that they were shutting down their task force on public safety and elections in the wake of controversy over its model legislation on

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Education and School Services

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

02/02/2012

 

It seems there's no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store.

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General, Education and School Services, Prisons, Detention and Public Safety, Water and Sewer

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

02/02/2012

 

It seems there's no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store.

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General, Education and School Services, Prisons, Detention and Public Safety, Water and Sewer