Thursday, February 12, 2004

More evidence of the growing recognition across the country that the No Child Left Behind law is fatally flawed: This past Tuesday, the Utah House of Representatives voted to prohibit the state's education authorities from using any local money to comply with No Child Left Behind. Essentially, the Utah legislature is calling the President's bluff when he says the law is fully funded. In Utah, they will implement the requirements of NCLB to the extent they are financed by Federal funds. If that money is insufficient, state money will not be spent to make up the difference. Utah now joins Virginia and Vermont in enacting anti-NCLB legislation. The action in Utah is particularly embarrassing to the White House, however, since the legislature of that state is overwhelmingly Republican.

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