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...next day the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers' union, with school districts in Michigan, Texas and Vermont, filed suit against the Federal Government, claiming that No Child is severely underfunded. Maine is considering joining. Connecticut is crafting its own suit, and other states may sign on. And then there's Texas: Bush's home state was fined $444,282 last month (out of a $1.1 billion federal allowance) by the U.S. Department of Education for missing a deadline to report school rankings. Texas continues to violate the law in other ways...
...ultimate affront to the Feds has yet to happen. Although any state can gracefully exit from No Child by simply declining federal funds, no state has done so. Three individual districts--in Illinois, Connecticut and Vermont--have opted out, but none had much money at stake. Evanston, Ill., considered doing so; then its board decided that would send the wrong signal to minority and special-ed kids. In other words, it's still politically incorrect to go against No Child. But that may change if the uprising continues...
...Number of school districts in three states--Michigan, Texas and Vermont--that sued the Department of Education over lack of federal funding for the No Child Left Behind...
...novel, Less Than Zero, was published in May, it has sold 50,000 copies and made several best-seller lists. Ellis, meanwhile, has become a cult celebrity, showing up on Today, Firing Line and MTV. Not bad for someone who just completed his junior year at Bennington College in Vermont. Ellis' book, set in the affluent Los Angeles suburbs where he grew up, chronicles a few days in the lives of a group of teenagers burned out on sex and drugs. "It can be taken, I guess, as a piece of sociology," he concedes. "A lot of teenagers hunger...
...Yurchenko's flip-flop deeply embarrassed CIA Director William Casey and his agency. "You've either got a defector who was allowed to just walk away under circumstances I can't accept or you have a double agent planted on the U.S.," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "No matter what, something is wrong...