21.   Gov. George Pataki supported the push for higher standards in the early years and took credit for increases in the education budget.

22.   Growing special education costs were swallowing the regular education budget.

23.   He announced his education budget will include significant funding increases for schools and colleges.

24.   House Republicans said they had worked hard to pass an education budget that addressed many of the priorities Clinton outlined, as well as others he did not.

25.   In Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, governments are keen to expand the numbers in higher education without a corresponding boom in the education budget.

26.   In Wilmington, a booming coastal community where the school system adds hundreds of new students each year, public education budgets are tight.

27.   It also puts pressure on the entire education budget, which in turn, makes it tougher to hold down overall spending and taxes.

28.   Instead, the candidate advocates doubling the education budget and using the additional money for the technological modernization of the universities.

29.   Last month, they passed a three-year education budget that made no major changes to the funding formula.