By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org

BATON ROUGE, La. – Monday proved to be a bad day for education reform in The Bayou State.

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Baton Rouge Judge Michael Caldwell struck down Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Act 1, a 2012 education reform law that “ended the practice of firing teachers in reverse order of their seniority” and “made it harder for teachers to get tenure,” among other things, reports the Huffington Post.

Caldwell ruled that the bill dealt with multiple issues, thereby violating Louisiana’s constitutional requirement that each piece of legislation deal only with a single subject.

In a prepared statement, Gov. Jindal noted that the judge did not rule on the substance of the reforms, only the manner in which they were passed into law.

The ruling marks the second time the courts have blocked the governor’s ambitious attempts to reform the state’s K-12 education system.

Last November, a state judge ruled that Jindal’s Act 2 – which expanded a statewide private school voucher system and opened the doors for more charter schools – was unconstitutional, based on technical grounds.

“Like the voucher ruling, the decision here is more technical rather than an evaluation of the merits of these policies as they relate to Louisiana’s schools. This fact was not lost on Jindal, who plans to appeal the ruling,” reports the Huffington Post.

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The governor has already asked the state Supreme Court to overturn the voucher ruling, and has expressed confidence the court will reinstate both education reform laws.