Civil Rights Groups Back NCLB in 6th Circuit Brief

This from the School Law Blog:

...David Hoff reports here in his NCLB: Act II blog that a coalition of civil rights groups has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that revived a major challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act as an unfunded federal mandate.

The groups are joining the side of U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who earlier this month asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, to reconsider a ruling by a three-judge panel of the court in Pontiac School District v. Spellings. The court ruled that the states were not on clear notice of their potential financial obligations when they agreed to accept federal funding under the No Child Left Behind law...