Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists' "model legislation"

Festus · April 12, 2019, 11:56am

Here’s an example happening RIGHT NOW in North Carolina, an ALEC bill introduced in 37 states to replace history and civics education with more economics education. The teachers say that imposing a new year of economics content will gut most content in US and European history courses at the high school level.

https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2019/H433

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Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists' "model legislation"

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