Common Dreams Article RatingOpinion | ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills
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| "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." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "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." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In the last election, it was police funding and Black Lives" | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "They also discussed school privatization measures such as education savings accounts and charter schools." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "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." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "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." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "HF 802 passed the Iowa legislature, was signed into law by Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, and took effect on July 1." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "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." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "In order to combat the alleged threat that critical race theory poses, speakers promoted curriculum materials from Trump's failed 1776 project and a Goldwater Institute model bill to make curriculum materials transparent." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
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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."
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.