S.C. et al. v. Calkins et al. (2024)
In 2024, again after nearly a year-long investigation by JCL, private firm Kaplan & Grady and JCL filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a class of elementary school children and their parents across the Commonwealth challenging the deceptive and fraudulent marketing and sale of faulty literacy curricula that have undermined the future of students across the Commonwealth. The lawsuit seeks substantial relief from the publishers and authors of discredited literacy products to which generations of students and families across Massachusetts were exposed to, and harmed by, due to defendants’ deceptive marketing and failure to warn Commonwealth school districts that their products were unfit for use in teaching literacy. The suit exposed that by 2023, due largely to the peddling of these unfit products into Massachusetts, less than half of all third-graders in the Commonwealth met expectations for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English Language Arts Exam, and as reported by the Boston Globe, “roughly 70 percent of Black third-graders, 80 percent of Latino students, and 85 percent of children with disabilities did not meet the state’s benchmark.”
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