High court won't take up No Child Left Behind case

Supreme Court yesterday turned away a challenge by school districts and teacher unions to the federal No Child Left Behind law. The court said without comment that it will not step into a lawsuit that questioned whether public schools have to comply with requirements of the law if the federal government doesn’t pay for them. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit and a federal appeals court split 8 to 8, leaving the judge’s ruling in place.

Source: Boston Globe, 6.08.10