Jindal loses suit against Common Core

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A U.S. District Judge rejected Governor Bobby Jindal’s lawsuit against the Common Core standards. Jindal claimed that the Department of Education was illegally coercing states to use the standards.

BATON ROUGE — A federal judge has issued a final judgment rejecting Gov. Bobby Jindal's federal lawsuit against the Common Core education standards, clearing the way for him to take his case to an appeals court.

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick refused the Republican governor's claims that the U.S. Department of Education was illegally coercing states to use the standards.

In September, Dick had refused Jindal's request for a preliminary injunction to block federal officials from penalizing his state if it quits using Common Core. She said Jindal failed to show any such threat exists in legal briefings and a two-day hearing in May.

Jindal attorney Jimmy Faircloth asked the judge to make that a final judgment to speed the appeal process, rather than hold a trial on the governor's broader lawsuit against the Department of Education. The judge granted Faircloth's request Tuesday.

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