[reelfoot]

Hope Connecticut prevails. Unfunded mandates are an unconstitutional impingement on the sovereignty of the states. Of course, NCLB is itself an unconsitutional federal exercise in education. But the president, congress, and federal courts have long ago proven that they don't much care for the 9th and 10th amendments.

I hope both the Bush administration and the NAACP get slapped down on this.

[summer]

I have to tell you -- if they fail, as you hope, then: the picture looks pretty bleak for those kids.

[summer]

From article re money:

Federal officials contend that the state must test every year from third through eighth grade and that state officials were aware of that when they accepted federal money to create those tests.

[summer]

In rereading your post #3, I think I actually meant this: If they fail (meaning GW and the NAACP)... sorry! :)