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Originally Posted by Griff

Pearson Publishing sells the textbooks, the other curriculum materials,
and the assessments used for the Common Core.
They own a fair number of lawmakers as well.

I'm going only on the links provided, but the first one ends with:

Pearson, it turns out, was the only bidder for the PARCC job.

Likewise, $30 k spent for "lobbying" at the national level seems a pittance,
and the $ amounts given over a 14-year period to political campaigns is spread over
several people and geographic regions... and political parties,
both Dem and GOP, between 1989 and 2014.

That all seems hardly enough to have someone stop other companies from bidding,
or to claim ownership of lawmakers, doesn't it ?