After months of calling for her resignation, Gov. Martin O?Malley abandoned a long-standing feud Monday with state Schools Superintendent Nancy Grasmick and convinced lawmakers to scrap legislation to force her out.

“We?ve all heard words about coming together and putting divisions of the past behind us,” O?Malley said at an Annapolis news conference with the schools chief. “In that spirit, Dr. Grasmick and I have had a real good talk.”