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The Heavy Hand of Government

by John Cole|  April 20, 20059:20 am| 3 Comments

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Another setback for the administration:

In a stinging rebuke of President Bush’s signature education law, the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that orders state officials to ignore provisions of the federal law that conflict with Utah’s education goals or that require state financing.

The bill is the most explicit legislative challenge to the federal law by a state, and its passage marked the collapse of a 15-month lobbying effort against it by the Bush administration.

Federal officials fear Utah’s action could embolden other states to resist what many states consider intrusive or unfunded provisions of the federal law, known as No Child Left Behind.

Utah’s action comes as a federal-state conflict over the education law appears to be escalating. The attorney general of Connecticut has announced that he will sue the Department of Education over the law’s finances, Texas is in open defiance of a federal ruling on testing disabled children and many state legislatures have protested various provisions of the federal law, which has required a sweeping expansion of standardized testing.

Despite the fact that education funding went through the roof, it appears we still mandated more than we provided:

The Utah bill leans heavily for its rationale on a provision in the federal education law that Republican congressmen during the first years of the Clinton administration, which forbids federal officials from requiring states to spend their own money to enact the policies outlined in the law.

And the battle between conservatives and big government compassionate conservatives wages on.

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  1. 1.

    Mr Furious

    April 20, 2005 at 9:27 am

    Heard this yesterday on NPR. Good for utah.

  2. 2.

    DecidedFenceSitter

    April 20, 2005 at 9:29 am

    From what I heard on NPR yesterday morning, this is the second or third time that Utah has tried this.

    Despite the fact that education funding went through the roof, it appears we still mandated more than we provided:

    Apparently, if I recall correctly, Utah is/was only getting 5% of its education budget, so had decided to skip out on that 5% and thus totally ignore. It was only when that plan was announced did the other 100 million come into play for removal, which then pushed the legislature into this move.

    I think this will be an interesting joust.

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    Brian J.

    April 20, 2005 at 1:26 pm

    Don’t kid yourself, John. If the Federal government had waved enough dollars, Utah would have taken them.

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