Supporters of Common Core in Louisiana, where the fight over thestandards has been particularly fierce, won a substantial victoryover the weekend by retaining control of thestate’s school board.

Under no circumstances would Common Core allow the federal government to dictate education to states and local government. By law the federal government cannot set standards or curricula. Standards ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...

Nowhere has the conflict surrounding the Common Core State Standards been more protracted, high-profile, and complicated than in Louisiana. Battles surrounding the Common Core State Standards and the ...

Controversy in Louisiana over Common Core implementation came to a climax at the end of July when the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 6-4 to join a lawsuit against Gov. Bobby ...

Common Core standards will allow Louisiana students to see how well they do compared with their peers across the nation. Former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, wrote an opinion piece for The ...

Barry Erwin of the Council for a Better Louisiana is in support of Common Core during the Northshore Legislative Alliance of the St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce debate on Common Core at the Clarion ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Concerns that large number of Louisiana’s public school students would refuse to take the heavily-debated Common Core standardized tests this week appear unfounded. Education ...

In 2012, Louisiana lawmakers, backed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, adopted federal education standards, joining the ranks of most states nationwide. Now, following a downward trend in Common Core popularity, ...