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...faithful who say the broad-reaching law tramples states' rights and micromanages local decisions. "We are really standing our ground against adopting something that could wreck a successful state program," says Louisiana's Republican Governor Mike Foster. Some of the fiercest resistance has come from the Republican stronghold of Nebraska, whose Governor Mike Johanns was among the earliest supporters of Bush in his presidential bid. "The bill is the biggest federal grab in the history of education," says Chuck Hagel, the state's Republican Senator. While the cornerstone of the law mandates statewide standardized exams in Grades 3 through...
Last week Washington tried to make peace. Following inquiries from TIME to discuss the issue, Education Secretary Rod Paige called Christensen to see if he could personally visit the state and "work together" on a solution. For its part, Nebraska has minimally tweaked its plan, but it still falls far short of the law's core annual-testing regimen. If the Administration accepts the plan, other states may begin agitating for special treatment and the law could lose its federal force. --By Jodie Morse and Maggie Sieger
...Bush told voters in November that if they put Republicans in charge of both houses, he would heal the economy and improve health care and education. Those promises could be hard to keep if he wages an expensive war with Iraq. "We're going to have to produce," says Nebraska G.O.P. Senator Chuck Hagel. "If we don't, Republicans are going to get hit hard the next two years." If that happens, having a doctor on call may not be enough. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington
...Santee Sioux casino is a more modest affair. Set on a 200-sq.-mi. reservation along the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska, the gambling hall was set up in a converted cafe and has 60 slot machines. But soon after the casino opened in 1996, federal authorities sought to close it. The issue: the tribe, like the Seminoles, has no compact with the state, though it wasn't for lack of trying...
...early 1990s the 2,700-member tribe sought a compact with Nebraska to open a casino on the reservation where some 1,000 members still live. Nebraska refused to negotiate. In February 1996, when the only private employer on the reservation, a pharmaceutical company, closed its small plant, the tribe, with 59% of its members living below the poverty line, went ahead anyway, opening the Ohiya Casino and installing Las Vegas--style slot machines. Thelma Thomas, a Santee Sioux who managed the casino, recalls that the tribe thought it had "the inherent sovereign right and legal right" to offer Class...