CCSS must happen. Jeb Bush stepped in to save the day.73 Keep in mind that the for “final vote” ALEC to officially approve of a model resolution opposing CCSS had been taken and recorded in ALEC minutes in December 2011. FEE Executive Director Patricia Levesque issued an email on November 20, 2012, offering verbatim the announcement that former ALEC director and current FEE state policy director for Digital Learning Now! David Myslinski publicized a day Bush’s earlier and cited previously in this email begins as follows: chapter. Levesque’s After an 18-month exploration of Common Core State Standards, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) came to a final vote over the weekend, rejecting a bill opposing Common Core.74 This must be the one that favors Murdoch profits for both data “final final vote”—the collection and assessment—and the one that Jeb Bush wanted all along. At least now we need not wonder what would happen if ALEC had to choose between federalism and materialism. Materialism, one; federalism, zero. But then, ALEC has always worked hard to put money in its corporate members’ pockets. And in this age in which those with a lust for power fully comprehend the need for information control, ALEC will always find an obscenely wealthy patron willing to reward it for voting—and—when necessary—voting again.
CCSS must happen. Jeb Bush stepped in to save the day.73 Keep in mind that the “final vote” for ALEC to officially approve of a model resolution opposing CCSS had been taken and recorded in ALEC minutes in December 2011. FEE Executive Director Patricia Levesque issued an email on November 20, 2012, offering verbatim the announcement that former ALEC director and current FEE state policy director for Bush’s Digital Learning Now! David Myslinski publicized a day earlier and cited previously in this chapter. Levesque’s email begins as follows: After an 18-month exploration of Common Core State Standards, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) came to a final vote over the weekend, rejecting a bill opposing Common Core.74 This must be the “final final vote”—the one that favors Murdoch profits for both data collection and assessment—and the one that Jeb Bush wanted all along. At least now we need not wonder what would happen if ALEC had to choose between federalism and materialism. Materialism, one; federalism, zero. But then, ALEC has always worked hard to put money in its corporate members’ pockets. And in this age in which those with a lust for power fully comprehend the need for information control, ALEC will always find an obscenely wealthy patron willing to reward it for voting—and—when necessary—voting again.
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