I understand that there are 12 states that are refusing federal funds
so that they do not have to participate in No Child Left Behind.  My
question is:  What are these 12 states?  Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 12 Mar 2004 16:49 PST

I hesitate to post this as an answer, since I am not certain that it
meets your needs:

"Every local school district in America has received significant new
freedom and decision-making authority over federal education funds,
and 12 states had notified the Department that they would apply for
significant new flexibility as well .

As of June 7, 2002 twelve U.S. states had notified Education Secretary
Paige of their plans to apply for participation in NCLB?s State
Flexibility Authority Program (?State Flex?): Alabama , Arizona ,
Colorado , Delaware , Florida , Illinois , Massachusetts , Nebraska ,
North Carolina , Pennsylvania , Tennessee and Texas ."

http://edworkforce.house.gov/issues/108th/education/nclb/factsheet100303.htm

If this is the information you're looking for, I'll be glad to collect
further data about the "State Flex" program.

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Clarification of Question by pacmarrin-ga on 12 Mar 2004 18:11 PST

We actually would like to know the names of the states that are
refusing to apply for any extensions for the No Child Left Behind
legislation.  We have found some articles that imply that states such
as Hawaii and Utah are boycotting the legislation all together.

Thanks.

Hello.

It's inaccurate to say that there are 12 states refusing federal funds
so that they don't have to participate in "No Child Left Behind"
(NCLB).

An Associated Press article a few weeks ago mentions 12 states
"resisting" NCLB, but if you read the article, it's pretty clear that
aren't actually 12 states refusing federal funds.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/education/7978514.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp


As many as 20 or so states are actually resisting "No Child Left
Behind" or some of its provisions, but only a few states have actually
taken any real action against the NCLB.


From a St Louis Post-Dispatch article published a few days ago:

"20 state legislatures have responded to the federal law with
resolutions and bills protesting what many view as an intrusion on
states' rights...
...
Four states - Utah, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire - introduced
legislation that would bar districts from spending state dollars to
enforce No Child Left Behind's requirements.
 Most of the state resolutions, however, are short on substance; they
merely declare that their states should be exempt but should not lose
federal funding."
source:
'No Child Left Behind' act draws fire from states, districts
By Alexa Aguilar
St Louis Post-Dispatch
03/08/2004
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Education/F187C1D32B3CC3EC86256E52002344A4?OpenDocument&Headline=\\\'No+Child+Left+Behind\\\'+act+d


Here's a summary of the states that have taken the strongest stand against NCLB:

"States That Have Protested Against NCLB include:"

Arizona - "The House introduced an opt-out resolution. "

Hawaii - "A House resolution authorized the state to opt-out."

Maine - "A bill that would prohibit expenditure of state funds on NCLB
implementation "

Minnesota - "Opt-out legislation has been proposed in both the House and Senate."

New Hampshire - "A bill would bar the state from spending money on the law."

New Mexico - "Opt-out was introduced in the House."

Utah - "A House-passed bill to allow implementation of only those NCLB
provisions paid for by federal funds has passed a Senate committee"

Vermont - "Passed a law in 2003 barring state funding of NCLB."

source: "Federal & State Legislative Update"
http://www.okea.org/FedLegUpdate/UP02-27-04.pdf
Or HTML cache by Google: (url shortened by snipurl)
http://snipurl.com/52ib


Also see:
National School Boards Assocation:
"More states take action to challenge NCLB"
http://nsba.org/site/doc_sbn_issue.asp?TRACKID=&VID=55&CID=682&DID=33124

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search strategy:
"no child left" "states have"
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utah virginia arizona nclb "states have"
utah virginia arizona nclb "opt out"

I hope this helps. If anything is unclear, or you have questions about
the status of NCLB in any particular state not mentioned above, please
use the "request clarification" feature to let me know.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 12 Mar 2004 21:31 PST

I notice that the St Louis Post-Dispatch article didn't show up as a
live link. I'll try again:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Education/F187C1D32B3CC3EC86256E52002344A4?OpenDocument&Headline='No+Child+Left+Behind'+act+draws+fire+from+states,+districts&tetl=1