MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Despite the Tea Party furor in Montgomery, a bill to repeal Common Core standards in Alabama schools is, in all likelihood, dead for the 2014 legislative session.

Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, had sponsored a bill to put a moratorium on the national educational benchmarks, but that bill failed to make it to the Alabama Senate floor before an important deadline.

Under the state Alabama Legislature's rules, Wednesday was the last day a bill originating out of the state Senate could pass out of that house without a vote of unanimous consent, meaning one objecting senator could kill it.

The Common Core repeal has sufficient opposition there that, even if state Senate leaders allowed it to come to the floor for a vote, it would not pass.

On the first day of the session, Tea Party members from across the state rallied on the Alabama State House steps to demand those standards, which they view as a federal intrusion into Alabama school curricula, be repealed.

During that rally, Tea Party leaders warned that, if the standards were not repealed, they would work to unseat Republican lawmakers who did not advance their agenda.