The court struck down PARCC-based graduation requirements because they were illegal.
The Common Core State Standards were the subject of an amended legal complaint by the Gov.The tests amount to control of teaching and learning by Washington bureaucrats if they are so important to the common core that their absence cripples teachers' classroom work.
The tests from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, should be blocked by the court because they are an illegal federal intrusion into state control of education.The governor is trying to stop the use of PARCC in Louisiana.He referred to PARCC as a federal agent.
The argument is a syllogism.The governor claims that if the federal government funds the tests, they will control what teachers do in classrooms, which is illegal.The damage uncertainty over testing creates for teachers is proved by the arguments from common-core and PARCC supporters.
It is the latest legal maneuver in an increasingly complicated and ugly battle over the tests and standards in the state.A testing contract that the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education planned to use to administer PARCC was blocked by the governor because of his opposition to the common core.
The state board joined a lawsuit that sought to overturn the barrier to the PARCC test thrown up by the Jindal administration.
State lawmakers are trying to invalidate the state school board's 2010 adoption of common core because they say it failed to follow proper administrative and public-notice procedures.
"Simply put, PARCC is the implementation platform for a carefully orchestrated federal scheme to supervise, direct, and control educational curriculum, programs of instruction and instructional materials in direct violation of federal law."
The state did not give up control of its educational system when it decided to use PARCC tests, according to the State Board President.The state board revised its policies last year to prevent the state or federal government from forcing school systems to use a specific curriculum or course content during the transition to the common core.