By Lyndsey Layton August 27 at 11:54 AM <a href="http://ift.tt/1C393Dq;
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, a potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was once a strong supporter of the Common Core standards, but he has become increasingly critical as opposition to the standards has grown, particularly among conservative Republicans and tea party groups.
Jindal has tried unsuccessfully to remove the Common Core from Louisiana but has been stymied by the state legislature, the state board of education and Jindal’s own state superintendent of education — all supporters of the Common Core.
“The federal government has hijacked and destroyed the Common Core initiative,” Jindal said in a statement. “Common Core is the latest effort by big government disciples to strip away state rights and put Washington, D.C. in control of everything.”
Before filing the lawsuit Wednesday, Jindal also tried unsuccessfully to sue his state board of education over the Common Core standards.
Read Jindal's lawsuit
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Obama administration, challenging the legality of the Common Core State Standards. Read the lawsuit.
The standards, which are being rolled out this school year in 43 states and the District of Columbia, are a state-led effort that originated with a bipartisan group of governors and state education chiefs. The Common Core was created as a way to inject some consistency into academic standards, which vary widely from state to state. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation largely funded the effort to write Common Core, as well as the process to get the standards adopted and implemented.
Although the federal government had no official role in developing the standards, the Obama administration has supported them, giving $360 million to groups of states that are writing new Common Core tests.
Obama’s education department also used Race to the Top, its $4.3 billion competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting “college- and career-ready” standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program. Most states understood that phrase to mean Common Core.
Jindal’s lawsuit argues that the U.S. Department of Education’s use of incentives to try to get states to adopt the standards violated federal laws that prohibit the federal government from getting involved in curriculum and other local decisions about education.
The Common Core State Standards spell out the skills and knowledge students should possess at the end of each school year, from kindergarten through 12th grade. The standards are not curriculum; decisions about what school districts teach and how they teach it are left to states and localities.
Louisiana competed three times for a grant under Obama’s Race to the Top program, finally winning on the third try in 2011, when it received a $17.4 million grant under the program. At the time, Jindal made no mention of overreach, illegality or coercion.
In the state’s 2010 attempt to win Race to the Top funds, Paul Pastorek, then the state’s superintendent of education under Jindal, wrote that “we proudly submit this application to Race to the Top because Louisiana’s children can’t wait.”
Lyndsey Layton has been covering national education since 2011, writing about everything from parent trigger laws to poverty’s impact on education to the shifting politics of school reform.
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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, a potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was once a strong supporter of the Common Core standards, but he has become increasingly critical as opposition to the standards has grown, particularly among conservative Republicans and tea party groups.
Jindal has tried unsuccessfully to remove the Common Core from Louisiana but has been stymied by the state legislature, the state board of education and Jindal’s own state superintendent of education — all supporters of the Common Core.
“The federal government has hijacked and destroyed the Common Core initiative,” Jindal said in a statement. “Common Core is the latest effort by big government disciples to strip away state rights and put Washington, D.C. in control of everything.”
Before filing the lawsuit Wednesday, Jindal also tried unsuccessfully to sue his state board of education over the Common Core standards.
Read Jindal's lawsuit
The standards, which are being rolled out this school year in 43 states and the District of Columbia, are a state-led effort that originated with a bipartisan group of governors and state education chiefs. The Common Core was created as a way to inject some consistency into academic standards, which vary widely from state to state. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation largely funded the effort to write Common Core, as well as the process to get the standards adopted and implemented.
Although the federal government had no official role in developing the standards, the Obama administration has supported them, giving $360 million to groups of states that are writing new Common Core tests.
Obama’s education department also used Race to the Top, its $4.3 billion competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting “college- and career-ready” standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program. Most states understood that phrase to mean Common Core.
Jindal’s lawsuit argues that the U.S. Department of Education’s use of incentives to try to get states to adopt the standards violated federal laws that prohibit the federal government from getting involved in curriculum and other local decisions about education.
The Common Core State Standards spell out the skills and knowledge students should possess at the end of each school year, from kindergarten through 12th grade. The standards are not curriculum; decisions about what school districts teach and how they teach it are left to states and localities.
Louisiana competed three times for a grant under Obama’s Race to the Top program, finally winning on the third try in 2011, when it received a $17.4 million grant under the program. At the time, Jindal made no mention of overreach, illegality or coercion.
In the state’s 2010 attempt to win Race to the Top funds, Paul Pastorek, then the state’s superintendent of education under Jindal, wrote that “we proudly submit this application to Race to the Top because Louisiana’s children can’t wait.”
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