Jindal attacks Obama’s education secretary over Common Core

Published February 26, 2015 11:56pm ET



Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took a jab at Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, during an address to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.

“I’m in favor for right now, suing Arne Duncan to make it clear, we need to remove Common Core from every classroom in America,” Jindal said. “We object to Common Core because the federal government has no right imposing curriculum, imposing content standards in local classrooms when these decisions have always been made by local parents, by teachers, by local leaders. … We’ve seen under President Obama the federal government get more involved, get more expensive, more expansive, more intrusive.”

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