Common Core

Common Core profiteers depicted in 4th Veritas video

Common Core profiteers depicted in 4th Veritas video

Evan Lips

Publishers profiting from the Common Core educational standards once again became the target of undercover video outfit Project Veritas as it released a fourth clip on the subject earlier this week, this time showing a textbook industry executive in California commenting on how success in his business is dictated by politics.

"I'm going to share this but it never came from me," Gilbert Garcia, the chief executive of Lifelong Learning, tells a Project Veritas journalist, apparently posing as an industry lobbyist, in the organization's fourth video about Common Core and the publishing industry. "The reality was that the evaluations that were done on all of the supposed competitors, Pearson was not a clear winner, yet Pearson got the contract."

Clinton emails contained ‘top secret’ material, US says
Democrats

Clinton emails contained ‘top secret’ material, US says

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton's home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails that contained material requiring one of the highest levels of classification. The revelation comes three days before Clinton competes in the Iowa presidential caucuses.

State Department officials also said the agency's Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research bureaus are investigating if any of the information was classified at the time of transmission, going to the heart of Clinton's defense of her email practices.

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