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Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. |
Yesterday, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation gathered at an "island" resort on the coast of Florida for a so-called "education
academy" sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
There were no students or teachers invited to the Ritz resort. Instead, legislators,
representatives from right-wing think tanks and for-profit education
corporations met behind closed doors, in the words of PR Watch's' Dustin Beilke , "to channel their inner
Milton Friedman and promote the radical transformation of the American education system into a private, for-profit enterprise."
You can learn more about ALEC, an extreme right-wing policy group which received funding from the Gates Foundation, at the Center for Media and Democracy's
ALEC Exposed website.
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