ALEC Pushed Virtual Education Harming Our Children.

Important to know

·  K12 Inc., Exhibitor at ALEC's 2011 Annual Conference^[12], member of ALEC's Education Task Force [54 

ALEC legislators and ALEC are always pushing the privatization of public education.

ALEC legislators and ALEC are always pushing the fallacy that for-profit educational opportunities are superior to public education.

ALEC legislators are always manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation". 

Well – time and time again this ALEC delusion is proving to be wrong.

Another example

    of how ALEC’s policies are hurting American’s children.

ALEC legislators and ALEC profit sector members are EXPERIMENTING on our children.

And the ALEC free-market experiments are failing.

ALEC legislation is  public – private partnership, privatization of public service failure – policy that harms our children - failure pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council at their many private and secretive meetings.

ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation".  
Experimenting on our children - in the name of the "free market"
AT the expense of our children's education!!!!!
 

(My emphasis throughout) 

Email Directs Teachers To Delete Bad Grades

At the center of the controversy is the Tennessee Virtual Academy -- a for-profit, online public school that Republican lawmakers touted as a way to improve education in Tennessee. Two years ago, state lawmakers voted to let K12 Inc. open the school, using millions of taxpayer dollars.

At the center of the controversy is the fact that the pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council allows private education companies to meet secretly, behind closed doors with state legislators.

At the center of the controversy is private education companies writing legislation to push virtual schools that they distribute at ALEC meetings, vote on at ALEC meetings and then distribute to state legislatures – through ALEC legislators.

At the center of the controversy is that Tennessee ALEC members brought back the ALEC Virtual Public Act and enacted it in the state of Tennessee

    Here’s the Tennessee “Virtual Public Act”   

By Harry Brooks,White,Eldridge

ALL ALEC legislators

 
    Here’s the ALEC “Virtual Public Act”

Compare them - read them and weep - corporate control of our state legislatures.

ALEC copy and paste legislation taken to the state of Tennessee and destroying the education of 3,200 students.

ALEC copy and paste legislation that has been introduced in Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Texas and many, many more.  

ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation". 

The email -- labeled "important -- was written in December by the Tennessee Virtual Academy's vice principal to middle school teachers.

"After ... looking at so many failing grades, we need to make some changes before the holidays," the email begins.

Among the changes: Each teacher "needs to take out the October and September progress [reports]; delete it so that all that is showing is November progress."

"It just says take that out. To me, this appears like it's grade fixing." 

No - it's cheating. Cheating the students out of a decent education.
Teaching out children to cheat through the cheating behavior of a corporation.

But does that surprise me hell no
ALEC  reinforces cheating every time an ALEC legislator plagiarizes ALEC "model legislation" and introduces it in their state "as their own".  (Plagiarizing = cheating = liars)

K12 officials refused to sit down to answer our question

Tell them you will talk with them behind closed doors in a secret meeting at a posh resort (like ALEC does) and they will probably have a meeting with you.

There is also a bill up in a House subcommittee Tuesday that would essentially shut it down.

An ALEC experiment.

ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation". 

Do no harm to the children.

How long will it take for those kids to regain the skills they lost?

How long will it take for those kids to recoup the skills they never learned?

  

AND this experimental failure on our children is not limited to Tennessee!!!

It is happening repeatedly across the United States.

But we continue to have particular concerns about the involvement of K12 Inc., the large for-profit vendor running Greenfield’s Massachusetts Virtual Academy.

A Dec. 16, 2012 investigative piece in The Republican (Springfield) and Masslive.com reported that

students in the K12-run online school

    ranked second lowest in the state on students’ progress

    in the MCAS math and English exams.

    They also post an unusually high attrition rate.

Ranked second lowest in math.

Ranked second lowest in English.

...  unusually high attrition rate 

Do no harm to the children!!!

How long will it take for those kids to regain the skills they lost?

How long will it take for those kids to recoup the skills they never learned?

Another ALEC for profit – privatization scheme – that harms our children, that harms the future of our nation, by producing a flawed education process; based on spurious ALEC free-market arguments.

Massachusetts and Tennessee tax dollars being used to support for-profit failures.

Massachusetts and Tennessee tax dollars being used to bankrupt children's educational potential.

ALEC “model legislation” fails AGAIN.

ALEC legislators  manipulating the education market 
- to favor ALEC corporate members 
- through the use of ALEC "model legislation".