To: Governor John Bel Edwards
Prevent Louisiana State University from going bankrupt
We the undersigned demand that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal make every effort to forgo the bankruptcy of Louisiana State University and the bankruptcy of the system of public not-for-profit state schools of higher education in Louisiana. We demand that Jindal reverse tax breaks extended to corporations so as to raise revenue for LSU and Louisiana's system of public not-for-profit universities.
Why is this important?
According to Valerie Strauss writing in the Washington Post newspaper, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is an organization that writes model laws for state legislators. According to Strauss, "What it actually is is an organization that writes "model legislation" ...that... legislators use in state after state to make new laws that promote privatization in every part of American life: education, health care, the environment, voting rights, etc." and "its efforts to privatize public education, for example, have resulted in the expansion of voucher programs in a number of states." The purpose of the voucher systems, like the one pushed through by Louisiana Governor Jindal, is to gut public education institutions in order to produce profits at private for-profit schools and for their corporate owners.
ALEC is an organization funded by large corporations which meets to produce legislation favorable to the profit-making interest of large corporations. ALEC is corporations dictating legislation to its legislative and gubernatorial dupes. It is voraciously greedy corporations trying to wring the last drop of profits from citizens by undermining state institutions and regulations.
ALEC has an education task force that represents for-profit higher education corporations. This anti-public-higher-education task force dictates to state legislators, from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
According to Robert Mann, who has a great deal of experience in journalism and politics in Louisiana and who holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Manship School of Mass Communication, writing at his blog bobmannblog.com, "(Louisiana Governor Bobby) Jindal...is a committed ALEC disciple...(and) received a prominent award for his adherence to ALEC's principles."
One of ALEC's principles is cutting taxes. Especially on corporations who run the show. No taxes, more profits. Jindal cut taxes so much for his corporate dictators that Louisiana can no longer afford a system of higher education. LSU, and its statewide system of universities, is about to declare bankruptcy. Gutting Louisiana's and other state's public higher education institutions will increase profits at for-profit colleges and universities and reap profits from students and their families who will have to pay through their noses. Students and their families will pay (in higher fees for education) the taxes that Jindal exempted his corporate dictators from paying.
Tell Bobby Jindal, big corporations' majordomo in the Louisiana governor's mansion, to fund Louisiana's system of public higher education and prevent LSU from going bankrupt.
ALEC is an organization funded by large corporations which meets to produce legislation favorable to the profit-making interest of large corporations. ALEC is corporations dictating legislation to its legislative and gubernatorial dupes. It is voraciously greedy corporations trying to wring the last drop of profits from citizens by undermining state institutions and regulations.
ALEC has an education task force that represents for-profit higher education corporations. This anti-public-higher-education task force dictates to state legislators, from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
According to Robert Mann, who has a great deal of experience in journalism and politics in Louisiana and who holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Manship School of Mass Communication, writing at his blog bobmannblog.com, "(Louisiana Governor Bobby) Jindal...is a committed ALEC disciple...(and) received a prominent award for his adherence to ALEC's principles."
One of ALEC's principles is cutting taxes. Especially on corporations who run the show. No taxes, more profits. Jindal cut taxes so much for his corporate dictators that Louisiana can no longer afford a system of higher education. LSU, and its statewide system of universities, is about to declare bankruptcy. Gutting Louisiana's and other state's public higher education institutions will increase profits at for-profit colleges and universities and reap profits from students and their families who will have to pay through their noses. Students and their families will pay (in higher fees for education) the taxes that Jindal exempted his corporate dictators from paying.
Tell Bobby Jindal, big corporations' majordomo in the Louisiana governor's mansion, to fund Louisiana's system of public higher education and prevent LSU from going bankrupt.