1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; directing the state of Minnesota to end participation in 
1.3 	the No Child Left Behind Act.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. ENDING PARTICIPATION IN NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
 1.6 	The commissioner of education must nullify and revoke by August 1, 2009, the 
1.7 	consolidated state plan that the state of Minnesota submitted to the federal Department 
1.8 	of Education on implementing the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and any other 
1.9 	Minnesota state contract or agreement entered into under the provisions of the No Child 
1.10 	Left Behind Act of 2001.