21.   Most of all, Kirby said, Parker has to find a way of adapting to the reality of the statewide curriculum standards, and the accompanying tests.

22.   Not a single school district, he said, now meets all the new curriculum standards, which he contends would raise the quality of education statewide.

23.   One crucial missing element is the setting of curriculum standards.

24.   Over the last five years, the curriculum standards have been written by academic panels, in math, science, geography and history.

25.   Other goals are to train bilingual teachers in the new curriculum standards and to increase the number of teachers certified to teach bilingual classes.

26.   She also has been at odds with Bush over his support for new curriculum standards.

27.   So it wants to limit state support to the curriculum standards.

28.   That faction has clashed with the governor and lawmakers over curriculum standards and textbooks.

29.   The critics said it was unclear whether the money allotted to education was enough to pay for new curriculum standards that are supposed to insure equal education for all.

30.   The district has no preschool program, although one is recommended in the curriculum standards being revamped by the Department of Education.