Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal sues Obama over Common Core State Standards
Source: Washington Post
By Lyndsey Layton August 27 at 5:45 PM
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing the U.S. Department of Education of illegally coercing states to adopt the Common Core academic standards by requiring states that want to compete for federal grants to embrace the national standards.
Jindal also accused the department and Education Secretary Arne Duncan of forcing states to adopt the Common Core standards to win a waiver from some of the restrictive aspects of No Child Left Behind, the federal education law.
In both cases, the federal government violated the Constitution’s 10th Amendment, which strikes the balance between federal and states’ rights, as well as federal laws that prohibit Washington from interfering with local control over curriculum and other aspects of public education, Jindal alleges in his complaint.
“Common Core is the latest effort by big government disciples to strip away state rights and put Washington, D.C. in control of everything,” Jindal said in a statement. “What started out as an innovative idea to create a set of base-line standards that could be ‘voluntarily’ used by the states has turned into a scheme by the federal government to nationalize curriculum.”
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Don't like common core? (P.S., I don't.) don't compete for federal grants.
Of "clown" season where all the republicans in the "clown" car who want to be the nominee in 2016 will start in doing all the can to be noticed by their "base", or the tea bagger nuts as they are now called. The real crazies will most likely all be coming out after labor day to try and get the ball going. Nothing like starting a bit early!