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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Schools Matter: Pearson-Gate Claims More Corrupt Junketeers

Schools Matter: Pearson-Gate Claims More Corrupt Junketeers:

Pearson-Gate Claims More Corrupt Junketeers

Below is Michael Winerip's Jan. 1 piece on the fetid corporate cesspool that is Pearson Education and Pearson Foundation. I have taken the liberty to highlight the public officials who have been bought by Pearson's generous junkets. Below Winerip's piece is a late December piece by Winnie Hu.
Junketeers in London
January 1, 2012
New Questions About Trips Sponsored by Education Publisher
By MICHAEL WINERIP

In the summer of 2010, Lu Young, the superintendent of schools in Jessamine County, a Lexington, Ky., suburb, took a trip to Australia paid for by the Pearson Foundation, a nonprofit arm of Pearson, the nation's largest educational publisher.

Ten school superintendents went on the trip, which cost Pearson $60,000. While the foundation