State Challenges Seen as Whittling Away Federal Education Law
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, here at a school in North Carolina last fall, has called the law a “slow-motion train wreck.”
By SAM DILLON
Published: August 14, 2011
HELENA, Mont. — As hundreds of schools here and across the nation faced being labeled failures under the federal No Child Left Behindlaw, Montana education officials defiantly informed Washington this spring that they would stop raising testing targets as the law requires, despite warnings that doing so could cost the state millions of dollars in federal aid.
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Denise Juneau, Montana's education chief, wrote a defiant letter to Washington.
But in an agreement to be announced here on Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will allow Montana to keep most of the schools off the law’s blacklist, and the state will pay no penalty.