Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he was withdrawing the state from Common Core and the PARCC test for Common Core. State Commissioner John White said that the governor was wrong and that the state is proceeding with both Common Core and PARCC. Governor Jindal cut the funding for PARCC.
Mercedes Schneider tries to untangle the elaborate political standoff.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I love it. CCSS without the assessments is just a torso. You can’t run with just a torso.
You should see all the damage CCSS with its hours and hours of assessments has done to Ohio education, led by a governor who is controlled by ALEC. Our Ohio kids have to do HOURS of assessments in order for Pearson to make its huge profits. As I stated in another blog, my students will now see 6 hours of testing in February and 4 hours of testing in April/May. This 10 hours of testing is for one subject only. 10 hours of testing replaces a 2.5 hour test which was given at the end of April. In addition, all of this testing has to done on computers! Our school does not have a one to one ratio of laptops like some schools do, so our children will be leaving classrooms at different times. It will be so hard to keep track of who had what lesson. What a nightmare for everyone! Like someone else said in one of Diane’s blogs, “YOU DO NOT FATTEN A PIG BY CONSTANTLY WEIGHING IT!” How well said! It’s all a big mess.
Since all of our industry has gone to China, it is a well planned effort by the billionaires to profit on the last thing that has not gone to China yet. Our schools are not broken. Poverty is at its worst. The middle class is fighting to survive. College is now being withheld from middle class families who have financially suffered. They cannot get student loans for their children. As Diane has repeated said, poverty is at its highest levels as ever before. It’s a shame that this money cannot be used to help the suffering middle class. They are now the forgotten class.
It may well be that Mr. Jindal does not have the authority to withdraw from PARCC in theory, but it seems like he can do so in practice. On the one hand, I am all for people starving PARCC to death, but on the other, I don’t think I like unilateral action from a governor to overrule a state board. It’s like mayoral control of schools – I can’t like it just because I don’t like PARCC.
But I suppose it’s a good thing for the children of Louisiana even if Mr. Jindal almost certainly doesn’t have the right motives.
Interesting that this circus is going on, while Jindal knows that the assessment that will be used is ACT, which is validated and measures the Common Core. This “fake” controversy to end Common Core and Common Core tests can easily be ripped wide open to the public by reading Louisiana’s ESEA flexibility waiver which explains the entire agenda moving forward. White is right. Common Core is STILL there.