Opinion | ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Republican efforts to ban the teaching of the history of racism in public schools picked up steam when the corporate "bill mill" the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) hosted a workshop on December 3, 2020 called "Against Critical Theory's Onslaught."
51% : ALEC is a pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to adopt model legislation that weakens environmental protections, advances anti-union measures, reduces funding for health care, promotes private prisons, and weakens state regulation of corporations.
51% : In the last election, it was police funding and Black Lives
51% : They also discussed school privatization measures such as education savings accounts and charter schools.
46% : But last year ALEC dove headfirst back into racial issues, supporting former President Donald Trump's efforts to protect Confederate monuments and stoking Republican outrage over the alleged teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
37% : In September 2018, CMD exposed far-right speaker David Horowitz, who said at a national ALEC meeting, "At the K-12 level, school curricula have been turned over to racist organizations like Black Lives Matter and terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood."

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