Test Company Alleges Pearson Common Core Contract Award Biased, Illegal

Big Government reports:

The decision to award Pearson, the world’s largest education company, a contract of “unprecedented scale” for a Common Core test project has been challenged by a competitor who contends the award was made through a process that was biased in favor of Pearson.

As reported by Sean Cavanagh at Education Week, the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a Washington-based assessment organization, has filed a legal action in New Mexico state court that argues the procedure used by the PARCC Common Core testing consortium was illegal and biased in such a way that only one company – Pearson – could benefit from it.

According to the report, AIR originally filed a protest with New Mexico state officials in December, soon after the request for proposals was issued by the states belonging to the PARCC test consortium. New Mexico brought forward the initial request for proposals for the PARCC testing project on behalf of its consortium member states.

Common Core means common corruption.