Manassas won’t fight required reading test

 The Manassas City (Virginia) School Board, which oversees a small system with a large concentration of students who have limited English, this week reluctantly abandoned an effort to defy a controversial federal rule for testing those students. Previously, the board had considered resisting the rule through a resolution similar to those adopted recently by school boards in Fairfax and Arlington counties. Read how the threat of losing aid for disadvantaged students prompted the decision in this article from The Washington Post.