The American Legislative Exchange Council was behind many of the stand-and-kill laws like the one that led to the murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida. When this became known, funders and many corporate sponsors publically fled from their affiliation with ALEC.
Interestingly, not the The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).
NACSA is a long-time member of ALEC. NACSA is funded in part with tax money as a result of its work with school districts and state departments of education. NACSA has contracts with the Denver Public Schools, Baltimore City Public Schools, Arkansas Department of Education, California Department of Education, and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
A key agenda item for ALEC is outlawing collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. Their relationship with NACSA is not all that surprising.
That the affiliation is funded using taxpayer money is another matter.
That would be union member’s money.
NACSA, with headquarters in Chicago, has a Board of Directors that includes the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess and a Director of Stand for Children.
Fred Klonsky 
NACSA is working state by state to destroy local democratic control of public education through their “model” charter school authorizing legislation. NACSA had openly been using ALEC to sell this legislation, as stated on the NACSA web site. However, NACSA removed the ALEC reference once ALEC became too hot to be associated with.
James Osborne of Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about the NACSA/ALEC connection:
“the association also employs a Washington lobbying firm, primarily to push for more federal funds for charter-authorizing agencies.
And it works with the nonprofit American Legislative Exchange Council, founded in 1973 by a conservative political activist. The council gives corporations and think tanks access to its 2,000-plus state-legislator members. The groups are circulating legislation to remove control of charters from local school boards through creation of state charter-school commissions that would free school officials from “regulatory interference by other governmental agencies” – a position even some charter backers say could lead to corruption and more failing schools.
Gary Miron, an education professor at Western Michigan University who has spent 14 years studying charter schools, described the association as a means for the industry to address criticism in the late 1990s that low-quality schools were opening.
“Their purpose is to ramp this up, and expand the charter-school movement,” he said.”
Source: http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news/homepage/&id=137456663&deliver=iphone&c=y&viewAll=y#more
NACSA’s model charter legislation http://www.qualitycharters.org/policy/statewide-authorizer-legislation creates an appointed and completely unaccountable state-wide commission that approves new charter schools, overriding local school boards and community wishes. That is specifically what the legislation is designed to do — to destroy local democratic control of public education by taking away the ability of local school boards to approve new charter schools.
The goal is to force more charter schools on communities that would otherwise resist.