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These efforts thus represent an attempt to seize from Democrats one of their signature issues, public education. The states with the best schools, such as Massachusetts, still tend to be Democratic, with relatively high taxes and school spending. And some Democratic places, such as the District of Columbia and New York, have made aggressive attempts at reform. But voters increasingly see Democrats as beholden to teachers’ unions and the status quo, says Eric Hanushek, an education expert at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The Republican reformers, by contrast, promise reform without higher taxes, in part by confronting the unions.
This is why they look to Mr Bush. What he proved in Florida, claims Jaryn Emhof, his spokesman at the education foundation he now runs, is that “it’s not about how much you’re spending, but how you’re spending, how you’re teaching.” Although school spending did rise slightly under Mr Bush, Florida still spends very little per pupil compared with other states. With a Republican legislature, Mr Bush instead made Florida the only state to adopt an entire bundle of reforms simultaneously, in the teeth of the teachers’ unions.

A. 어휘
represent 대표하다. seize 빼앗다, 붙잡다. signature 특징적인, 서명.
relatively 상대적으로. the District of Columbia 워싱턴 市.
aggressive 공격적인. beholden 구속을 받는, 신세를 진.
status quo 현상유지. by contrast 대조적으로.
confronting 정면으로 맞서면서. spokesman 대변인. foundation 財團(재단).
legislature 州의회, 입법기관. adopt 채택하다.
bundle 다발, 덩어리, 떼. simultaneously 동시에.
in the teeth of ...을 거슬러서, ...에도 불구하고.