HARTFORD, Conn. – You won’t see this very often.

Connecticut’s largest teachers union and Republican lawmakers are working together against Democrats to push for a delay in the implementation of Common Core, the set of nationalized learning standards that are currently being used in the Constitution State’s classrooms.

The unusual alliance is already yielding some results.

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On Wednesday – as Connecticut Education Association officials were holding a press conference to blast the state’s “botched” Common Core rollout – GOP lawmakers were using an obscure parliamentary mechanism to force the Democrats in control of the General Assembly’s Education Committee to hold public hearings for two Common Core-related bills, reports Courant.com.

One of the bills would simply codify into law the recently announced changes to the state’s teacher evaluation system. Those changes delay by two years the use of students’ Common Core-aligned standardized test scores in teachers’ job reviews, the Associated Press reports.

The other bill – which has Democrat leaders upset – would freeze further implementation of Common Core standards. Media reports do not indicate how long the proposed delay would last.

“Teachers are calling for a moratorium,” Mark Waxenberg, executive director of the Connecticut Education Association, said Wednesday. “Teachers are not saying we don’t want standards. What we’re saying is give us time to digest what we’re being asked to do to make sure we can get this done right before children are being judged improperly…and parents being misled relative to their child’s ability in the classroom.”

Waxenberg continued: “No Connecticut teacher was involved in the creation of these standards. We haven’t had the time to implement (it), the students haven’t had the opportunity to learn (it.)”

Democratic state Rep. Andrew Fleischmann, who co-chairs the legislature’s education committee, views a moratorium as a non-starter.

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“I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to put a moratorium on a curriculum that’s already rolled out across the state,” sniffed Fleischmann, according to Courant.com.

The Republicans’ hopes of delaying Common Core seem a long shot, given that Democrats control the levers of power in the state legislature.

Still, a public hearing will give parents, teachers and taxpayers a chance to air their concerns about the one-size-fits-all, nationalized learning standards. Public sentiment is one the side of Common Core critics, so the added media coverage can only help generate more support for delaying the standards.

And considering that it’s an election year, well, nobody can say for sure how this growing controversy will end.

Just getting a public hearing on Common Core is a major step forward.

According to Breitbart.com, Common Core expert Dr. Sandra Stotsky told Connecticut activists last Saturday that their state legislature was attempting to “suppress debate” about the standards by refusing to hear any bills at all on the initiative.

House Republican leader Larry Cafero said not holding a public hearing would be “unacceptable,” considering that that K-12 overhaul is impacting parents, students, and teachers, reports CTNewsJunkie.com.

“It is critical that educators, parents, taxpayers and students be heard on these issues within the legislative process, and that can take place only if we have a formal public hearing,” said Cafero.

It has not been determined when those hearings will be held.