8/27/14
8:22 AM EDT
Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suing the federal government over the Common Core, alleging
that the Education Department has violated federal law and the Tenth Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution.Jindal says that the Obama administration has used federal grants like Race to the Top “to compel states to enter binding agreements to adopt and fully implement a single set of federally-defined content standards and to utilize assessment products created by a federally-sponsored ‘consortia,’” according to a press release.
“Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Education has made changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act state test review and approval process that will coerce states to adopt the federal government’s preferred tests or risk billions in federal funding,” his office adds in a statement.
Jindal alleges that the Common Core testing groups PARCC and Smarter Balanced are part of an effort to nationalize curriculum — an argument that he’s making in his own state in a separate lawsuit. And waivers from No Child Left Behind have allowed states to “unlawfully” waive accountability requirements in exchange for adopted the Common Core.
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