Agency: ESEA Timeline Threatened by Lawsuit
The Bush administration argued last week that a pending lawsuit against the Department of Education, if the plaintiffs win, could push back time-sensitive regulations on standards and testing by at least two months.
Government lawyers
made that point, and a host of others, in a brief countering legal
action by four advocacy groups over the composition of a federally
appointed rulemaking panel. The plaintiffs maintain that the department
failed to adequately represent parents and students on the negotiating
committee, which was tasked with reaching consensus on federal rules
stemming from the "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001.
The dispute appears to enter new legal terrain, as experts say no lawsuit has ever been filed over the makeup of...
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