. >> reporter: mickey landry is the executive director of choice foundation.n two others in new orleans. his staff trained for two years to implement the new standard, and landry is confident students will benefit. >> the students learn at a deeper academic level. >> reporter: in 2012 louisiana's republican governor bobby jindal announced support for the common core with mickey landry by his side. >> parents and kids should not be trapped in a failing school because of zipcode, gender or colour. but they did a 180 announcing they wanted to join other in rejecting the stared. >> at some point you say enough is enough. this is where we draw the line. >> how could be on the one hand in 2012 come to one of hour schools and declare that he was going to raise the standard and raise the rigor for curriculum because that's what our children needed to compete in the world as adults. >> landy and others sued governor jindal to prevent him pulling out of the common core. the judge ruled in their favour. not ready to admit defeat jindal fired suit against the obama legisl