Pressure Mounts in Some States Against Common Core

Opponents of common core redouble legislative efforts

Opponents of the Common Core State Standards are ramping up legislative pressure and public relations efforts aimed at getting states to scale back—or even abandon—the high-profile initiative, even as implementation proceeds and tests aligned with the standards loom.

Critics of the common core have focused recent lobbying and media efforts on Colorado, Idaho, and Indiana, all of which have signed on to the standards. Forty-six states have adopted the standards in English/language arts, and 45 have done so in math.

And just last week, Alabama announced it was withdrawing from the two consortia developing tests aligned...