Article response: A smart ALEC threatens public education

http://www.kappanmagazine.org/content/93/6/51.full

This article talks about how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is affecting public education. This article is bias towards the liberal views about ALEC. In the first couple of paragraphs it talks about how much ALEC has affected the midwest over the last year. It brings up how taking away collective bargaining rights showed up in three states last year including wisconsin. Then it goes on to talk about what ALEC strives for in education including changing teaching, privatizing education, increasing student testing, and elimate the use of school boards and districts. In this article, they think that all of these can be hazardous to the economy and education.