Jamie McKenzie [Nochildleft.com]: "The rulings by Judge Kravitz on the case against Secretary Spellings touched not on the substance of the complaints, but largely on matters of jurisdiction, judicial ripeness and timing, as he argued in the first three counts that the dispute between Connecticut and the Secretary needed to move further through administrative procedures before a district court could intervene.

Given the heavy handed and wrong-minded insistence of the Secretary on damaging and underfunded policies like annual multiple choice testing it would be sad to wait until this dispute 'ripens' further. Few states have the courage to face this "ripening" process and its possibly dire consequences. They elect instead to surrender their schools and children to simple-minded policies that violate most good thinking about real educational reform. Four years into these NCLB change strategies we have seen no real progress in NAEP test results (The National Assessment of Educational Progress).

Fortunately, Judge Kravitz in Count IV A— Denials of Plan Amendments – held open one door wide to his judicial review of the Secretary's denials of Connecticut's plan amendments without hearings, finding sufficient ripeness to proceed. The case is far from over."