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According to George Will:

The nation's reddest state -- last year, and in six of the last eight presidential elections, Utah was the most Republican state -- is rebelling against President Bush's No Child Left Behind law.

Several good points are raised by Will in this column, including the notion that a Republican State doesn't need to automatically fall in line behind the wishes of Republicans in Congress or the White House.

In a concept foreign to George Bush, the People of Utah actually believe in the dying concepts of federalism and the value of local control over education. Hopefully parents in other States, both red and blue, will remove the wool covering their eyes and recognize the abject failure called the United States Department of Education.

Utah takes its stand against federal usurpation by standing on the 1979 federal law that states: ``The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the federal government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the states.''

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson

We have been warned.

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