NAACP fights Connecticut's lawsuit.Making clear that the Connecticut NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. is not endorsing the No Child Left Behind law, President Scot X. Esdaile says the NAACP state chapter is choosing to side with the U.S. Department in Education while the state fights to have their lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. from being dismissed. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Richard Blumenthal is the 23rd elected Attorney General of Connecticut. Education Blumenthal graduated with honors from Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude) and Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. is fighting a court's decision last December to dismiss the state's lawsuit. Blumenthal says the law is an unfunded mandate An unfunded mandate is a statute that requires government or private parties to carry out specific actions, but does not appropriate any funds for that purpose. Examples "These two giants are fighting over who should be paying the bills, handling the testing, the costs of testing and fighting over money," says Esdaile. "At the end of the day, no one is speaking on behalf of the children.... In this case, we have more a common denominator common denominator n. 1. Mathematics A quantity into which all the denominators of a set of fractions may be divided without a remainder. 2. A commonly shared theme or trait. with the feds than we do with the state ... and it's not that we want to stick by them." Esdaile adds that the law is geared toward educating poor and minority children, while Connecticut is the richest state in the nation and has the biggest gap between the haves and the have-nots. |
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