Much has been written about ALEC's anti-public education agenda. This extreme right wing organization backed by education reform corporations, ideologues, and their political allies has pushed for policies that include such greatest hits as:

Promoting voucher programs that drain public schools of resources by using taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school profits, and specifying that those schools must remain unregulated.
Offering private school vouchers with "universal eligibility" (using taxpayer dollars to subsidize private schools for the rich and others); "means-tested eligibility," (using poverty as the first domino in an effort to privatize public schools); and "universal eligibility with means-tested scholarship." (Here, "scholarship" means using taxpayer dollars to pay private school tuition and/or profits.)
Giving tax credits to parents who send their kids to private schools, and to corporations that donate to scholarships for private schools.
Creating a scheme to deem public schools "educationally bankrupt" to rationalize giving taxpayer dollars to almost completely unregulated private schools, and for-profit charter operator.
Easing charter school authorization laws .
Certifying individuals with no education background as teachers, a move that weakens the quality of education, fails to recognize there is more to teaching than knowledge of a subject, and that would undermine the role and competitiveness of professional teachers .
Eliminating tenure for teachers in favor of "performance," allowing districts to fire older teachers in favor of lower-cost young teachers.
Undermining teacher's unions with bills like SB5 and So-called right-to-work efforts.

What might shock some, as it did us, was just how long the list of Ohio's legislators allied to ALEC is

House of Representatives

Rep. John P. Adams (R-78), State Chairman and Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
Rep. Ron Amstutz (R-3), Communications and Technology Task Force Alternate
Rep. Marlene Anielski (R-17), ALEC Education Task Force Member
Speaker William G. Batchelder (R-69), ALEC member
Rep. Peter A. Beck (R-67), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member
Rep. Terry R. Boose (R-58), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
Rep. George J. Buchy (R-77)
Rep. James Butler (R-37), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member and Communications and Technology Task Force Alternate
Rep. Timothy Derickson (R-53)
Rep. Anne Gonzales (R-19), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
Rep. Cheryl L. Grossman (R-23), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Alternate
Rep. Brian Hill (R-94), ALEC Member
Rep. Matt Huffman (R-4), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member
Rep. Ronald Maag (R-35), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
Rep. Kristina D. Roegner (R-42), ALEC Education Task Force Member
Rep. Cliff Rosenberger (R-86), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member
Rep. Barbara Sears (R-46), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
Rep. Gerald L. Stebelton (R-5), ALEC Education Task Force Member
Rep. Michael Stinziano (D-25), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member
Rep. Louis Terhar (R-30), ALEC Member
Rep. Andrew M. Thompson (R-93), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
Rep. Lynn Wachtmann (R-75), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
Rep. Ron Young (R-63), ALEC Member

Senate

Sen. David Burke (R-26), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
Sen. William P. Coley, II (R-4), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member
Sen. John Eklund (R-18)
Sen. Randy Gardner (R-6)
Sen. Kris Jordan (R-19), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member
Sen. Frank LaRose (R-27), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
Sen. Bob Peterson (R-17), ALEC Member
Sen. William “Bill” Seitz (R-8), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Co-Chair, spoke on “Saving Dollars and Protecting Communities: State Successes in Corrections Policy” at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting
Sen. Joseph W. Uecker (R-14), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member

Former Representatives

Rep. Louis Blessing (R-29)(replaced by his son, Louis W. Blessing, III, representative-elect)
Rep. Danny Bubp (R-88)
Rep. John A. Carey, Jr. (R-87), ALEC Education Task Force Alternate
Speaker Jo Ann Davidson
Rep. Dale Van Dyke
Rep. Bruce Goodwin (R-74), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member
Rep. Casey Kozlowski (R-99), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
Rep. Jarrod B. Martin (R-70), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
Former Rep. Robert Mecklenborg (R-30), ALEC Member
Rep. Craig Newbold (R-1), ALEC Member
Rep. Pat Tiberi
Rep. Todd Snitchler (Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio as of 2011)
Rep. Ronald Suster (D) currently Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge.
Rep. Tim Greenwood (R) currently outside counsel OH AG.

Former Senators

Sen. Robert. C. Cupp (R) currently sits on OH Supreme Court.
Sen. Grace L. Drake(R)
Sen. Michael A. Fox. (R) was director Butler County Children’s services, currently serving prison term for corruption.
Sen. Tom Niehaus (R-14), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member
Sen. Lynn Wachtmann

It's quite obvious then, why we've seen so many corporate education reform policies pushed in Ohio.