The Virginian Pilot, February 25th, 2008
Byline: RICHARD QUINN
By Richard Quinn
The Virginian-Pilot
RICHMOND
The General Assembly is flirting with abandoning a landmark federal law that governs schools in the United States.
The decision could make Virginia the first state to set a deadline - summer 2009 - for planning a pullout from the No Child Left Behind Act, which ties billions of dollars to federally mandated testing standards in public schools.
State politicians have balked at some of those standards in the past few years. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has signed bills asking the U.S. Department of Education to waive parts of t...
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