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Utah policymakers' frustration over President Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative is valid. The one-size-fits-all standards, as currently applied, don't make sense. Yet, if the states don't comply with the expensive requirements of the program, federal education officials say they will withhold federal education funding.
Cash-strapped Utah can't turn its back on hundreds of millions of federal dollars. Yet, that would be the likely result of HB43, which advanced from the House Education Standing Committee on Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, would prohibit Utah's participation in No Child Left Behind.See the full content of this document
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Don't Turn Down Fed Money
Most legislators, among them Dayton, understand that the state needs every dime of education funding it can get. So it's ...
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