Sentences with phrase «oppose federal overreaching»

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The new Common Core tests — designed to set and evaluate common benchmarks nationwide — appear to have fueled that frustration and brought new voices into the coalition opposing tests, including some conservatives who decry the Common Core as federal overreach.

All of the defectors, so far, are states led by Republican governors who have taken considerable heat from tea party activists and GOP legislators who oppose Common Core as an overreach by the federal government.