Jindal urges board to allow Common Core test alternatives

Gov. Bobby Jindal is urging the state education board to allow alternative tests for Louisiana public school students whose parents want them to "opt out" of standardized exams aligned with "Common Core" achievement benchmarks. Jindal said Friday that current board policy would cause students who don't take the exam known as the PARCC test to get a zero.

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