State Education is a political football and always was .
Education has become a political football and test scores are driving the pressure.
I'm not interested in using education as a political football; this debate is about educational standards.
The case is already a political football, and they got nothing to go on.
We don't allow our office to be used as a political football.
Education financing has always been a political football in Albany.
"The Mayor feels like it could become a political football."
It shouldn't be a political football that candidates can kick around at will.
But he seemed determined to show that his case had become a political football.
"The political football that the tax law has become - people can't understand it."