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Court won’t hear ‘No Child’ challenge
- 02-23-2011
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By Stephanie Reitz/Boston Globe
The US Supreme Court decided against hearing Connecticut’s challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind law yesterday, ending the state’s six-year lawsuit over how to pay for the stepped-up student testing considered one of the law’s cornerstones. Connecticut was the first state to challenge the 2002 law, which includes provisions requiring yearly standardized tests for children in grades three through eight. Connecticut previously tested students in grades four, six and eight. The state’s lawsuit sought to push the federal government to either change its testing rules or cover the extra testing costs, which Connecticut officials say add up to many millions of dollars. The high court’s decision not to hear the state’s appeal came after a federal judge and the 2d US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York both had agreed in earlier rulings that the lawsuit was premature. (more...)
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