I'm amazed at how brazenly transparent he is at upping his conservative bonafides.

Common Core would be great if the teachers learned how to teach it. It's big scary federal government, so frick it. No need to change what we're doing...we can do it better here in Louisiana anyway as our education statistics show.

To be fair to Jindal, he did push education reform. Unfortunately, it was more about union busting and establishing religious schools instead of actually improving the system.

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Posted by The Spleen

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Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:48 am to Duke

Privatizing education is one of the worst ideas to come out of the conservative movement in my lifetime.

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Posted by tigerbait2010

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Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:50 am to Duke

My only rationale for his endorsement for religious schools is because Louisiana is unequivocally a HUGE outlier in this case. The majority of Louisiana's best and brightest are in private Catholic schools, so he's giving them the benefit of the doubt. With that said they're not all good schools, and it doesn't help the impoverished. pretty much why he backs the voucher systerm, which I'm totally for.

I really am amazed myself at how adamantly against major education reform so many are here when our current system is a total shite show. What's honestly the worst that could happen?