NEW ORLEANS — Hours after announcing his exploratory committee for president, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal showed that education will be a cornerstone of his likely campaign in a speech Monday to the American Federation for Children National Policy Summit.

“One of the most important, lasting legacies I will leave [as Governor of Louisiana], will be the reforms we’ve implemented in K-12 education, specifically school choice,” Jindal said. “There are many reasons we should care about this. In America we like to believe, we like to say that we have equality of opportunity in education … but it’s not true. It’s not true in too many cities and too many states.”