Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Lobbying has helped fuel a nearly 2 billion testing industry.The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials -- as well as sometimes hiring them -- to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.
The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies -- Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw-Hill-- collectively spent more than $20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.... |
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