State to Fulfill Only Parts of Education Act
From Times Wire Reports
The Utah House voted to become the first state to scrap No Child Left Behind Act education mandates that would cost more than the federal government is willing to pay.
Republicans dropped a threat to abandon the 2002 Bush administration program altogether because that would have cost the state half of its annual federal education funding.
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