{"id":1352,"date":"2013-12-13T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2013-12-13T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T16:12:44","slug":"pearson-foundation-fined-millions-for-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/2013\/12\/13\/pearson-foundation-fined-millions-for-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson Foundation Fined Millions for Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions in fines have been levied as the result of a successful lawsuit against the Pearson Foundation which promotes education reform on behalf of its for-profit corporation. <\/p>\n<p>Pearson is an education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as directly to students.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson is involved in the development of both Smarter Balanced and PARCC assessments for the Common Core standards. <\/p>\n<p>Now if only they would banish the other consultants in the education &#8216;industry&#8217; perhaps the taxpayers would not be fleeced and the money would be directed to where it&#8217;s needed \u2014 the classrooms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dianeravitch.net\/2013\/12\/12\/breaking-news-pearson-foundation-fined-millions-for-violating-laws\/\">http:\/\/dianeravitch.net\/2013\/12\/12\/breaking-news-pearson-foundation-fined-millions-for-violating-laws\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions in fines have been levied as the result of a successful lawsuit against the Pearson Foundation which promotes education reform on behalf of its for-profit corporation. Pearson is an education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as directly to students. Pearson is involved in the development of both Smarter Balanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-consultants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}