Education

Louisiana Won’t Continue Bobby Jindal’s Lawsuit Against Bobby Jindal’s Policy

Written by SK Ashby

In 2010 former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) personally lobbied the state legislature to adopt and implement Common Core education standards across the state, but then something happened.

Somewhere along the way, Bobby Jindal decided he was going to run for president. At the same time, Republicans across the country had whatever the opposite of an epiphany is and decided Common Core standards -- which only pertain to mathematics and language arts -- are some kind of liberal conspiracy.

These simultaneous occurrences led Bobby Jindal to file a lawsuit against the same policy he personally lobbied for; a lawsuit that Governor John Bel Edwards will not continue.

The lawsuit cost Louisiana thousands of dollars. Jindal's contract lawyer, Jimmy Faircloth, was paid at least $450,000 to represent Louisiana on the case, according to Edwards' office.

After Edwards' announcement, Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry suggested he might try to keep the appeal alive. Landry said he will look into the details of the case before deciding.

Louisiana is in the process of adapting a new set of standards under Edwards which may or may not actually benefit the state, but his administration won't continue Jindal's nonsensical lawsuit against the Obama administration.

Jindal argued, among other things, that the federal government forced the state to adopt the standards, but that obviously wasn't the case. Jindal personally lobbied for the standards and, moreover, the standards were not created by the federal government.