Dive Brief:

• Louisiana's House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly (60-33) in favor of broadening the state's search for a Common Core assessment.  
• The state had signed on to use the PARCC test, but some lawmakers, including Gov. Bobby Jindal, fear the consortium is too connected to the federal government and would not reflect the specific values of Louisiana citizens.  
• The bill is likely to have a tougher time in the Senate vote, where there are far more Common Core supporters.   

Dive Insight:

Not everyone is buying this need for a new test. State Education Superintendent John White, a Common Core supporter, notes that while PARCC has been backed by the federal government, the actual assessments were created (and funded) by a consortium of states that included Louisiana. 

Still, Gov. Jindal has threatened to unilaterally drop the state's ties to PARCC. 

This back-and-forth is nothing new, as Louisiana has been a Common Core battleground for several months now. Multiple bills have attempted to transform and mutate the standards. In fact, Thursday also saw the state's Senate Education Committee shut down the latest bill aimed at dropping Common Core.