Va's GOP-led House passes res. critical of Bush's No Child Left Behind Act

[Ms. Wonderful]

In a backlash to President Bush's signature education program, Virginia's Republican-controlled House of Delegates approved a resolution calling on Congress to exempt the state from the requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act.

The act ''represents the most sweeping intrusions into state and local control of education in the history of the United States'' and will cost ''millions of dollars that Virginia does not have,'' the resolution says.

In passing the resolution 98-1, Virginia lawmakers loudly echoed concerns in other states about the effects of No Child Left Behind, which became law in 2002.

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Helloooooo, disaffected Repukes! Yee-haw.