What is ALEC?
07/16/2016

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is not a lobby group. It is not a front group. It is much more powerful. 

Both legislators and corporations make-up ALEC’s membership. This cozy relationship between lawmakers and corporations results in corporate-friendly legislation crafted behind closed doors, which directly benefits corporations' bottom lines. All nine ALEC task forces have corporate members who vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. 

Participating legislators then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the nation — without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC’s interests and influence has extended to education reform.

ALEC and its members have had enormous success in passing “education reform” legislation in Indiana. They now refer to their education model bills as the “Indiana Education Reform Package.” 

ALEC boasts that over 1,000 model bills are introduced by legislative members annually, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. We agree. They are unmatched in enriching their corporate underwriters at the expense of everyone else.

ALEC will host their biggest event next month in Indianapolis – their annual meeting. Join ISTA in calling on all Indiana lawmakers to #ProtectPublicEd, #DumpALEC and end their membership! We’re rallying during ALEC’s annual meeting on Wednesday, July 27 at 3:30 p.m. ET on the Indiana State Museum lawn in Indianapolis.

RSVP to join us for 2016 Indianapolis ALEC protest.