WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sweeping and controversial federal education legislation has often blurred party lines. Few remember today that the much-reviled No Child Left Behind Act passed 384-45 in the House and 91-8 in the Senate, in both cases with more Democrat votes than Republican ones.

The Common Core State Standards have bipartisan support, and the opposition is more than bipartisan; it’s absolutely bi-ideological. It is impossible to refer to CCSS opponents as strange bedfellows, since they can’t stand to be in the same room with each other. But they are burning down the same house from opposite corners, and this morning’s news illustrates that.

MSNBC provides a good summary of the “flurry of legislation” targeting several aspects of CCSS and notes both Tea Party conservatives and teachers’ unions are behind these efforts.

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We also have op-eds attacking the standards as both a federal power grab and a corporate power grab. Mark Naison, co-founder of the Badass Teachers Association and former SDS member, acknowledges the shared goal.

“Common Core is like the nightmare of both the right and the left,” he said, “government and corporate control together, each time undermining the ordinary citizen’s input into education policy.”

I’m not sure ordinary citizens ever had much input into education policy, but it will be interesting to see whether CCSS supporters can maneuver so that the arguments from polar opposites cancel each other out, or if defending two fronts leaves them too weak on either.