11.   Why not focus, some ask, on vital problems like crumbling schools and ratty textbooks?

12.   Democratic priorities, including funds to reduce class size and repair crumbling schools, also will be left for later debate.

13.   Democrats are battling for specific funds to hire new teachers and repair crumbling schools.

14.   Despite billions of dollars in annual revenues, Nigeria has crumbling schools, terrible telephone services and only haphazard electricity.

15.   Democrats are battling for specific money to hire new teachers and repair crumbling schools.

16.   He hopes the focus on fixing crumbling schools will give Democrats an election year edge.

17.   On Capitol Hill, Democrats are battling for specific funds to hire new teachers and repair crumbling schools.

18.   The American first lady called for investing in early childhood education, rebuilding crumbling schools and raising educational standards.

19.   The schools chancellor is pushing music and poetry in a system plagued with rats, guns and crumbling school buildings.

20.   The top Democrat said his party will push for money to hire more teachers and fix crumbling schools.