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“Fire Chris Koch”: ISBE chief hid real costs of testing company junkets

The Pearson junket scandal broke — i.e. was actually reported – a few months ago in New York, and the NY state attorney general is now investigating local education officials, but Chicago media seems uninterested in the fact that Illinois State Superintendent Chris Koch also took advantage of free trips around the world courtesy of the Pearson testing company, without fully reporting their value.

The New York Times reported last September that “Illinois — whose superintendent, Christopher A. Koch, went