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Legal ActionAction Type: Legislation Description of Action: Senate Bill 2090: Recommends and authorizes the attorney general to participate, intervene in and otherwise join with the attorney general in Connecticut in the lawsuit against the US Department of Education over NCLB. Status of Action: Scheduled for Judiciary hearing, 3/14/06 |
Changes/Waivers RequestedAction Type: Official Action Description of Action: The Education Department has reversed its earlier decision not to permit three New England states to forego testing under the No Child Left Behind Act this year and now will allow New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont to skip the process. The three states did not test their elementary and middle school students for the 2004-05 school year because they were transitioning to the new, jointly developed New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP), a first-of-its-kind testing coordination among states.) Status of Action: |
Full Funding ResolutionAction Type: Legislation Description of Action: The Senate passed S3129, which urges Congress to stop passing tax breaks that benefit wealthy citizens and global corporations and instead increase funding to the authorized levels of NCLB. The measures says that law shortchanges states by $9.4 billion Status of Action: Passed by the Senate on 5/20/04 |
