David Vitter's support of Common Core comes as a shock to the Tea Party of Louisiana. Vitter called Governor Jindal's move to cancel Common Core testing as "Very disruptive".

"I would take an aggressive, hands-on approach to get curriculum and implementation right," Vitter said. "I'd ensure the state and locals maintain complete control over curriculum, lesson plans and reading lists and make good decisions on those. And I'd demand effective planning and preparation with parents, school boards and teachers."

Tea Party of Louisiana spokesman Bob Reid said "Sadly, Senator Vitter's remarks sound more like rhetoric we'd expect from a D.C. elitist who doesn't believe that we average citizens are capable of making our own decisions running our own lives, and raising our own children.".

Vitter spokesman Luke Bolar offered that the senator hasn't changed his view, saying the quote mentioned by the Louisiana Tea Party about Common Core came from a fund-raising letter that had been drafted incorrectly and subsequently corrected.

 

 

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