Posted on 01/27/2016 9:53:03 AM PST by Rockitz
A former Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) executive reveals in a Project Veritas undercover investigation how textbook publishing giant Pearson Education won the $1.3 billion contract to put Common Core-curriculum-loaded iPads into the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), despite the fact that, he alleges, other publishers outpaced Pearson in their bids for the contract.
In this fourth video of a series by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas – focused on exposing the corporate cronyism behind the Common Core standards reform, Gilbert Garcia, Ph.D. tells the undercover journalist that “the big boys†of the textbook publishing world are Pearson, McGraw-Hill and HMH.
In the video, Garcia further states:
…Every publisher, major publishers has these people wandering around, talking to superintendents, talking to board members, talking to you name it, they’re politicking constantly.
I’m going to share this but it never came from me, the reality was that the evaluations that were done on all of the supposed competitors, Pearson was not the real winner, yet Pearson got the contract. So, that’s as simply as I can put it. So the problem is multi-faceted.
You have a conflict of interest, you have an evaluation that led to the selection of a company that wasn’t even clearly the number one company.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
BOTTOMLINE in article:
O’Keefe added, “In an extraordinary sequence of events, we released three Common Core corruption videos and three Common Core executives have been fired. But so far, none of this has been mentioned by the mainstream cable news networks. There will be no journalism awards for undercover journalists such as myself, but I have exposed and will continue to expose how the book publishers are all about the money with no regard for the actual needs of our children, how corporate cronyism and underhanded political deals have contributed to Common Core’s massive disruption and the unraveling of America’s educational fabric, and how taxpayer dollars are used with little accountability to enrich the major book publishing companies.â€
Pearson is a VERY STRONG Oboma backer and democrat donor. MD-based company, I believe.
Funny, all the schoolbooks the Chicago Public schools used were McGraw-Hill or Houghton Mifflin, no Pearson books there when I was in school. However, that was in the pre-Obama era.
I tried to get part time work grading student test papers for Pearson. Was denied because they only let “college graduates” grade elementary school children’s tests. I read up on Pearson afterwards and realized their agenda etc.
it’s really sad the twisted mess of what our country is currently and for the kids coming up through it unaware.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
New Jersey. My son in law used to work for them.
Uh huh.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.