Bashing No Child Left Behind: It's Not Just for Democrats Anymore!

So who's describing the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act as an unfunded mandate that threatens to undermine efforts to improve students' performance? Sure, Howard Dean and the rest of the candidates for the Democratic nomination are....but so is Virginia's Republican-controlled House of Delegates, according to a front-page article in today's Washington Post.

Virginia's House voted 98-1 (!) in support of a resolution calling on Congress to exempt states like Virginia from NCLB's requirements. According to the resolution, NCLB "represents the most sweeping intrusions into state and local control of education in the history of the United States" and will cost "literally millions of dollars that Virginia doesn't have".