Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos held a roundtable on “education freedom” with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) yesterday at the ALEC States and Nation Policy Summit to promote her controversial and costly Education Freedom Scholarships proposal.
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Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale
Eli Broad is one of the chief billionaires pushing education reform.
Koch Invested $127.5 Million in Building Right-Wing Infrastructure in 2018
Two-thirds of the money Charles Koch Foundation distributed in 2018 went to universities and colleges.
Koch Network Dominates SPN Annual Meeting Attendees
Right-wing policy network gathers in Colorado Springs to advance anti-labor, climate denial, and anti-disclosure agenda.
ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets this week in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, for its 46th Annual Meeting at the posh JW Marriott hotel.
Kochs’ Dark-Money Network Bankrolls Campus “Free Speech” Group
Speech First may look like a student group, but its staff and PR firm are paid for by the Koch operation’s DonorsTrust.
ALEC Teams up with Anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom to Promote So-Called “Campus Free Speech” Bills
The noted hate group is also a dues-paying member of ALEC, CMD has found.
American Federation of Teachers Targets Mass Incarceration, Private Prison Profiteers
2.7 million school children have an incarcerated parent.
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
Scott Beightol defends corporations accused of racial, gender, and age discrimination, and employers who want to deny workers medical and family leave.
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
Eli Broad is one of several mega-billionaires who have spent hundreds of millions on education think tank research and charter schools, shaping current trends in what they call education reform.