Connecticut Sues Feds Over No Child Left Behind Law

From Political State Report

August 22, 2005

CT: Connecticut Sues Feds Over No Child Left Behind Law

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The Associated Press reports that Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the No Child Left Behind law.

The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare that the federal government cannot require state and local money be used to meet federal testing goals.

Blumenthal has been talking about brining such lawsuit since last spring.

Connecticut has been administering its own mastery test for 20 years and wants to continue testing every other year. The federal law requires annual testing, and federal education officials have repeatedly denied the state’s requests for waivers.

Last week The Day reported that Connecticut’s Department of Education released test results showing the number of Connecticut elementary and middle schools failing to make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind act this year remained at 145, or 18 percent.

By: Dan Spencer, California Yankee
http://polstate.com/2005/08/22/ct-connecticut-sues-feds-over-no-child-left-behind-law/