It is the lead story in today’s Washington Post.

Lawmakers have responded by introducing legislation that would at least temporarily block the standards in at least nine states, including two that have put the program on hold. The Republican governors of Indiana and Pennsylvania quickly agreed to pause Common Core, and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), a vocal supporter of the plan, is nevertheless expected to accept a budget agreement struck by GOP legislators that would withhold funding for the program pending further debate.

I strongly support the Tea Party on this one. I was an early opponent of national testing. Ten years ago, I wrote

For the standardized testing approach to accountability, success by definition means making schools responsive to top-down control. In the case of the Bush administration “reforms,” standardized testing increases the leverage of the Federal government over local schools. Any conservative ought to think twice about supporting such a trend.