BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A coalition of Louisiana business and civic groups Friday called on Gov. Bobby Jindal to keep the Common Core education standards in Louisiana public schools, saying any attempt to unilaterally scrap them would violate “the spirit of the democratic process.”

State lawmakers in the recently ended legislative session and the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education have voted to maintain the benchmarks adopted by most states for English, reading and math.