To Jindal: Dump Common Core, PARCC,and White
Governor Bobby Jindal is apparently trying to muster up the courage to remove Louisiana from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and associated Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) assessments that he signed Louisiana on for in the first place.
Of course, Jindal has changed his position due to his national political ambitions.
Jindal is under pressure from Louisiana businesses to Keep the Core.
He is also at odds with Louisiana State Board of Education (BESE) President Chas Roemer and Jindal’s own appointee for state superintendent, John White.
These two are willing to stand against Jindal in support of CCSS and PARCC. As Susan Berry of Breitbart reports:
Both state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education president Chas Roemer and State Superintendent of Education John White are ardent supporters of the Common Core standards, which are due to take full effect in the 2014-2015 school year.Regarding Jindal, Roemer said, “He challenged the legislature, and the legislature didn’t agree with him. Our children deserve better than a Plan B.”Similarly, White said Common Core has been in the planning stage for teachers and students for four years.“They do not need a last-minute change,” White wrote. “They do not need chaos in the classroom.” [Emphasis added.]
White is such a hypocrite. That brings me to the point of my post.
In October 2013, Jindal appointed “long time ally” Jane Holland Smith to a BESE To Jindal: Dump Common Core, PARCC, and White | deutsch29:
