Leaving No Child Left Behind

States vs.the federal government with this interesting fact:

the biggest challenge to NCLB comes from outside Washington, as state legislatures and education officials resist federal requirements they say they cannot afford. The issue doesn’t fit neatly into the normal red-blue lines. Utah gave Bush 72 percent of its vote in 2004, his highest margin in any state. In April, the Republican-controlled legislature voted to assign a higher priority to the state’s accountability laws than NCLB; the Republican governor signed the bill, putting at risk Utah’s $76 million in federal education funding. The lower house of the New Jersey legislature recently passed a similar bill.

The American Conservative