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Posted on Wed, Apr. 06, 2005
No Child Left Behind lawsuit ahead

State will challenge federal mandate

The Associated Press


HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut is preparing a lawsuit to challenge President Bush's No Child Left Behind education law, becoming the first state to challenge the federal mandate in court.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday the federal lawsuit will contend that the law illegally and unconstitutionally requires states and communities to spend millions more than the federal government provides for test development and school reform programs.

Although other states have questioned the law and asked the federal government and Congress to make changes, they have not gone to court. Blumenthal said he anticipates that other states will join his lawsuit. Signed in 2002, the law's aim is to have all students in public schools proficient in reading and math by 2014.

Earlier Tuesday, administration officials said that Education Secretary Margaret Spellings planned to fundamentally change enforcement of the law, giving preferential treatment to states that prove they are serious about raising achievement, the officials say.

For example, the Education Department plans to give some states more freedom in how they test hundreds of thousands of children with milder disabilities. But only states that can prove progress or a strong commitment to improve will be seriously considered for that flexibility, administration officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity.



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