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Rich Spicer is a musician and historian. He's the founder of Columbia's Musick - a group that performs American music from the Colonial era and the first half-century of our nation. They play everything from the chamber music of the wealthy, to the popular tunes of taverns and political campaigns.

More on this music at: www.americasmusicworks.com/columbia_main.html

A new federal education law could raise the price of education by 500 dollars per child.

That's the conclusion of a study by the New Hampshire School Administrators Association, which says the No Child Left Behind Act could leave schools with a big deficit.

President Bush signed No Child Left Behind earlier this year. Some education leaders worry it's an unfunded mandate like special education. The federal government has never lived up to its commitment to fund that program.

But backers of the new law say it's too early to tell how it will affect state finances. They say critics are overreacting.

NHPR's Trish Anderton reports.