Center for Media and Democracy Alec Model Legislation School Violence Prevention Resolution
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Exposed ALEC EXPOSED Search GO By the Center for Media and Democracy www.prwatch.org D I D Y O U K N O W ? Corporations VOTED to adopt this. Through ALEC, global companies LOGIN | LOGOUT | HOME | JOIN ALEC | CONTACT work as “equals” in “unison” with politicians to write laws to govern your life. Big “ALEC” long been EVENTS a ABOUThas MEMBERS & MEETINGS MODEL LEGISLATION TASK FORCES INITIATIVES Business has “a VOICE and a VOTE,” accordingALEC to newly exposedPUBLICATIONS documents. DO YOU? secretive NEWS collaboration between Big Business and Did you know the NRA--the Home Model Legislation Public Safety and Elections “conservative” politicians. Model Legislation National Rifle Association-Behind closed doors, they Civil Justice School Violence Prevention Resolution ghostwrite “model” bills to was the corporate co-chair in be introduced state Commerce,inInsurance, 2011? Summary andacross Economic capitols the country. Development This resolution declares that all school students have the right to the surety that schools This agenda--underwritten and classrooms are safe, and requests from the state Department of Education an by global corporations-Education accounting, evaluation, and reporting of those school violence prevention programs that includes major tax are being used successfully in other schools across the state in order to help school Energy, systems and personnel be better prepared to deal with school violence. loopholes forEnvironment, big industries and Agriculture and the super rich, Resolution proposals to Relations offshore U.S. Federal jobs and gut minimum WHEREAS, the people of this nation and of the state of {name of state} have been and Human shocked by recent widely publicized violent incidents at schools throughout the nation, wage,Health and efforts to Services but these are only the most visible of countless events in schools throughout the state weaken public health, and nation in which the safety and lives of school children and school faculty and staff safety, and environmental International Relations are placed in jeopardy; and protections. Although many Public WHEREAS, Students, teachers and other school personnel should be assured the of these billsSafety haveand become ability to teach and learn in a safe school environment; and Elections law, until now, their origin has been largely unknown. WHEREAS, it is unfortunate, but true, that one of the greatest priorities in school Tax and Fiscal Policy management and administration today is to take all steps necessary to protect school With ALEC EXPOSED, the children and staff from harm that may be caused by intruders on school campuses, as Telecommunications Center for Media and well as by students or staff; and and Information Democracy hopes more Technology WHEREAS, the {name of state legislative body} has enacted a number of provisions Americans will study the intended to guide and assist school administrators in taking appropriate action to bills to understand the protect school children and staff; and this Page depth andPrint breadth of how big corporations Text-Onlyare Page WHEREAS, it is important that these statutes be fully and appropriately implemented and that other steps be taken to assure that all reasonable action has been taken and all changing the legal rules Email this Page reasonable measures implemented to provide for prevention of school violence and and undermining democracy readiness of school personnel to deal with any incident that may arise. across the nation. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the {name of state legislative body} does ALEC’s’Corporate Board --in recent past or present • AT&T Services, Inc. • centerpoint360 • UPS • Bayer Corporation • GlaxoSmithKline • Energy Future Holdings • Johnson & Johnson • Coca-Cola Company • PhRMA • Kraft Foods, Inc. • Coca-Cola Co. • Pfizer Inc. • Reed Elsevier, Inc. • DIAGEO • Peabody Energy • Intuit, Inc. • Koch Industries, Inc. • ExxonMobil • Verizon • Reynolds American Inc. • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. • Salt River Project • Altria Client Services, Inc. • American Bail Coalition • State Farm Insurance For more on these corporations, search at www.SourceWatch.org. hereby urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to comprehensively examine actions taken by school boards, school system staffs, and school administrators to prevent school violence and to deal with incidents of violence in schools and on school property, and to report in writing to the House and Senate Committees on Education, prior to the convening of the 2001 Regular Session of the Legislature, study findings and recommendations for legislation or administrative actions to improve the preparedness of {name of state} public school systems and personnel to deal with school violence. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and to the state superintendent for public elementary and secondary education. Adopted by ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force at the States and Nation Policy Summit December 9, 1999. Approved by full ALEC Board of Directors January, 2000. About Members Login Logout Events & Meetings About Us and ALEC EXPOSED. The Center for Media and Democracy reports on corporate spin and government Model Legislation Task Forces ALEC Initiatives Publications Home propaganda.! We are located in Madison, Wisconsin, and publish www.PRWatch.org, www.SourceWatch.org, Join ALEC Contact News and now www.ALECexposed.org. For more information contact: editor@prwatch.org or 608-260-9713.