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Gidney N Cloyd

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3. It started with a bit of hearsay but upon nosing around there seems to be a Lumina-ALEC connection.

Reply to raccoon (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 02:01 PM

Jul 2013

Found this article that touches on how ALEC and Lumina are financially intertwined: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/11/993257/-U-of-MN-Goes-to-Koch-Because-of-ALEC#
The Koch brothers, as we read on DU time to time, are behind ALEC (though neither seems to be on the board of directors).

Maybe I'm making too much of it. These SOBs have so much money that a couple hundred G's here and there can look like a rounding error.

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Well, they're "only" two year degrees Warpy Jul 2013 #1

Where are you getting that the Koch brothers are funding it? I didn't see that anywhere. nt raccoon Jul 2013 #2

It started with a bit of hearsay but upon nosing around there seems to be a Lumina-ALEC connection. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 #3

Apparently Lumina severed ties with ALEC prior to their current fiscal year, so... Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 #5

ACCJC, the accreditation agency that is threatening to to close Starry Messenger Jul 2013 #4