Idaho Joins Montana in Break from NCLB; Who's Next?

What is it with those SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium states?

Idaho State Superintendent Tom Luna has followed the lead of Montana chief Denise Juneau in sending a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan (h/t Michele McNeil) telling him (not asking) that his state, like Montana's, won't be raising its adequate yearly progress proficiency targets next year as it is required to do under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Luna's letter closely tracks Juneau's not only in its ultimate pronouncement, but in its recitation of the impressive achievement gains of the state's students, the benefits of the common core state standards, and the frustration over the delay in ESEA reauthorization and the emerging two-track standards and accountability systems.

Most notable about Luna's decision is that he worked in the U.S. Department of Education under Rod Paige from 2003–05, a time that coincided with the implementation of the federal education law Luna is now essentially disavowing.

We've not heard a response from the department about Montana's, and now Idaho's, decision. Will there be a third state that joins the trend of flouting at least some of NCLB's accountability requirements?