Senate: No state funds for No Child law (Maine)

[Judi Lynn]

Senate: No state funds for No Child law
Tuesday,April6,2004,10:04 AM


AUGUSTA (AP) -- Maine lawmakers have given their final approval to a measure that seeks to bar the use of state money to comply with the federal education mandate known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

The resolve, which the Senate passed Monday, authorizes Maine's Education Department to determine the state's cost to comply with the 2001 school-reform law. It allows Maine to comply only to the extent that federal funding allows.

The bill sponsor, Sen. Michael Brennan, says it also it makes clear that Maine's own school-reform law, Learning Results, is the state's top priority.
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http://www.wmtw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1765383&nav=7k6rM575

[xxqqqzme]

1. the end game of

the neocons - cut federal funds so states take the responsibility 4 the unfunded social programs a 'compassionate' administration says it supports. U think there isn't going 2 B trouble here in about 30 years?

[sam sarrha]

2. the Federal funds only buy the 'Test Materials' printed by corporations

that are friends of the Ruling Hunta. .. the funds are alocated for propaganda purposes, so W can say "I", "I" "I", "Me", "Me", "I"..me" Then only actualy spends a small protion, then the rest falls back into the general fund to be spent on what they want to hide... so what else is new. :shrug: