Exposing ALEC’s agenda

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been hard at work for decades. Its members are organized, well-funded and connected–too bad they aren’t using their powers to do what’s right for students and schools.

Instead, they use all their resources to push an agenda to open up the public school system to vouchers and privatization, lobbying legislators to restrict everything from voting rights to workers’ rights to help pave the path to their success.

Learn all you can about how ALEC operates, so you’ll be prepared to protect your students and neighborhood schools. A good place to start is by watching the 30-minute documentary The United States of ALEC, featuring Bill Moyers.

280 Days

280 days is a mini-documentary of the heroic efforts of the members of the Columbus Education Association in their fight against Senate Bill 5. Using never-before seen photographs and video footage, the film follows the legislation's path from its introduction in the Senate to the citizen veto that repealed SB 5 in the name of the middle class.

SB5 forging an undemocratic path

It is being widely reported that the shiny new S.B.5 is not going to have any time to be read by anyone before being voted on. Another clear sign, if we needed another clear sign, of bad dealing by the house Republican majority. They ignored the protests, phone calls, emails and even the petition of 64,000 people to kill the bill