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.
January 1, 2012
Junketeers in London
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
