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Corporate Marketing and Public Schools
Some textbooks and teachers' guides in California public schools are being developed in part with input from corporations...
By Warren Olney • • 53m ListenSome textbooks and teachers' guides in California public schools are being developed in part with input from corporations. In a textbook on the environment, the American Chemistry Council provided language on "the benefits of plastic bags" -- at a time when some cities and counties are banning plastic bags. Are school curricula being designed by private-public partnerships? Does corporate involvement raise potential conflicts of interest? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, is there a different kind of Democrat in the White House?
Banner image: A headline in the local paper is seen on March 28, 2007 in San Francisco, California. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved groundbreaking legislation to outlaw plastic checkout bags at large supermarkets, the first such law in any city in the US. Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images)
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Los Angeles County and San Francisco are among the California municipalities that have banned plastic bags on the grounds that they're bad for the environment. But an environmental curriculum used in some California public schools contains positive messages about plastic bags.
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