DOE asks court to dismiss NEA suit.

DOE asks court to dismiss NEA suit. The federal government is asking a U.S. District Court to dismiss a landmark case landmark caseLaw & medicine A civil or, far less commonly, criminal action that has had an impact on a particular area of medicine. filed by the nation's largest teacher's union that seeks to force the federal DOE to pay for all the provisions in NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative). In a response to the suit, which was filed in April by the National Education Association, the U.S. DOE asserts the union has no standing to sue and the case lacks merit. The NEA NEAabbr.1. National Education Association2. National Endowment for the ArtsNEA(US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband f��r das Erziehungswesen suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan Michigan(mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). , aims to free districts from the burden of complying with any part of NCLB that isn't paid for by federal funding. The agency in its response contends districts that don't want to meet federal requirements shouldn't expect federal aid. If the court doesn't dismiss the case, oral arguments will start in October.