President Bush’s signature education reform act — the No Child Left Behind Act — is being challenged in court. On Wednesday the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, and school districts in Texas, Michigan and Vermont filed a lawsuit that charges the federal government is illegally forcing schools to comply with parts of the Act not paid for by the government. In addition the lawsuit argues that the federal government has shortchanged schools at least $27 billion. Meanwhile the Republican-led legislature in Utah voted Tuesday to make state education standards a priority over federal ones imposed by the No Child Left Behind Act.