Educating ALEC: Pushing Back Against Privatizing Public School

Protesters Condemn ALEC's Push to Privatize Public Education

by TRNN

Demonstrators Crash ALEC convention in Chicago, a city impacted by the privatization of public schools.

 

Joining us to talk more about the protest and the history of ALEC and its influence on public education around the country are two guests. We are joined by Julie Mead. She's a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She researches, teaches, and writes about topics related to legal aspects of education. Her research centers on legal issues related to special education and raised by forms of school choice. We're also joined by Brendan Fisher. He is general counsel with the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of ALECExposed.org and PRWatch.org. He has worked extensively on the ALEC Exposed project.