3 of 4 Claims in Conn.’s NCLB Suit Dismissed

A federal judge last week dismissed three of the four claims in Connecticut’s lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act, largely on procedural grounds.

The Sept. 27 ruling by Judge Mark R. Kravitz of the U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., left both the state and the U.S. Department of Education claiming a victory of sorts.

Connecticut sued U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings last year in a bid to force the federal government to increase its funding to a level that the state contends would be sufficient to meet the education law’s mandates, which include yearly testing of most students between grades 3 and 8 and...