Serious question, not being a wise a$$, I must be missing something.

For example, according to CT's Attorney General, No Child Left Behind is an unfunded mandate which costs the state millions of dollars. For what? Why does it cost so much to administer a test and send them off to be scored? Are the states responsible for printing/copying them? Is there more to it than losing one day of school to pass out a test?

I can see the state's argument that the CT Mastery Tests are more stringent than the NAEP test and that it's repetitive but I just don't see what all the money must be going to. No one ever addresses that part of it, just that it's an "unfunded mandate."

Please help, I'm sure there's an easy explanation. I've just never heard/read it.

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