Spellings Asks 6th Circuit Reconsider NCLB Ruling

From Education Week - By Mark Walsh
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that revived a major challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act.

In a court filing Feb. 5, Bush administration lawyers asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, to reconsider last month’s decision by a panel of the court that suggested states and school districts do not have to use their own money to comply with the education law’s mandates when federal funding falls short. READ MORE