• In 2012, the NYS state exam produced by Pearson featured more than 30 errors, with faulty questions and problems with translation and scoring. One of the reading passages was so ludicrous it was featured on John Oliver.
• In 2013,  Pearson’s state exams featured crass, commercial product placements as well as reading passages lifted from Pearson textbooks. According to Kathleen Porter Magee of the conservative Fordham Institute, Pearson was abusing its monopoly power in a way that “threatens the validity of the English Language Arts (ELA) scores for thousands of New York students and raises serious questions about the overlap between Pearson’s curriculum and assessment divisions.”
• The Pearson Charitable Foundation paid a $7.7 million fine after the state attorney general found they had broken state laws. The company also had to pay $75 million in damages plus costs to settle a lawsuit over price-fixing.
• Pearson was found to have made mistakes in scoring the NYC Gifted and Talented tests. Not once, but twice.
• In 2015, it was discovered that Pearson was monitoring the social media of students who criticized their NJ state exams.
• In 2018, Pearson’s lax security practices led to one of the largest student data breaches in history, involving probably millions of students, including many in New York. The FBI alerted Pearson to the breach in March 2019, but they didn’t tell anyone, including the schools or the students until months later. Eventually, Pearson was fined $1 million by the SEC for misleading investors about the breach.
• Altogether, Pearson has been subjected to dozens of investigations for discrimination against its employees on grounds of race, disability, gender, age, etc.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/18/the-nyc-school-system-must-reject-this-contract/