ITPI Commentary in Sector: 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

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.

 Read more...
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