Connecticut Takes U.S. to Court Over Education Law - New York Times: "Accusing the Bush administration of being 'arbitrary, rigid and capricious' in carrying out its signature No Child Left Behind education law, Connecticut sued the federal government today, seeking relief from a requirement to scrap its own testing program in favor of a more costly one.

The suit, the first by a state to challenge Mr. Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative, argues that Connecticut is not being adequately reimbursed for the cost of switching to annual testing from its current program of testing every other year.

The suit opens a new front in the struggle between the federal government and states that have objected to the law, in some cases by passing legislative protests and in others, like Texas [emphasis mine], by defying federal officials."