Looks like our President's home state can't even comply with the "No Child Left Behind" laws.
Click here for the article in the Houston Chronicle.
Texas exempted nearly 10 times the desired number of students from regular standardized testing, even after its request for a waiver to do so was denied by the U.S. Department of Education, which is led by former Houstonian Margaret Spellings. The government requires schools exempt no more than 1 percent from testing because of learning disabilities.
Only Minnesota had consciously ignored the new federal policy before, when the state's education commissioner failed to conduct testing of students and instead used their attendance records and graduation rates to meet average yearly progress requirements. Minnesota had no state testing arrangements at the time but has since met the federal guidelines.
Minnesota was fined $113,000 by Spellings' predecessor, Rod Paige, of Houston.
The Texas case sets the stage for a precedent-setting showdown involving Spellings, the policy's architect, and her home state, the policy's incubator when Bush was governor and she was his education adviser.
Spellings said she has not decided how to respond to the Texas challenge while her office is occupied with Utah, whose legislature recently voted to override the law's guidelines.