By Todd Hatton
Murray, KY – Kentucky's education commissioner says his two international trips with an education foundation whose related business won a lucrative state contract violated no ethics rules. Commissioner Terry Holliday says he's been open about his trips to China and Brazil with the Pearson Foundation. Holliday says he used the trips to see how other countries address the same economic and educational challenges Kentucky faces. Holliday was responding to a New York Times article questioning whether the trips affected the state's decision to award a $7 million contract to NCS Pearson to devise and administer assessment tests used to measure public school student progress.