51.   Clinton also will press Congress to approve his education budget, which includes major spending increases for Head Start, early learning programs and after-school centers.

52.   Clinton complained that Congress decided to recess to permit members to campaign for re-election before finishing the education budget.

53.   Clinton used his radio address Saturday to demand that Congress make passing the education budget its top priority in the lame-duck session.

54.   Chavalit recently removed Sukhavich as education minister after he was accused of handing out bribes and using the education budget to build hotels instead of schools.

55.   Congress should pass the education budget as its first order of business.

56.   --Failure to protect jobs and the education budget in Thailand has resulted in a threefold increase in the number of children dropping out of school.

57.   He also said his education budget would triple the amount of money available for character education in the classroom.

58.   He stressed that even though the BMA has been keeping a strict belt-tightening policy, the agency decided not to cut the education budget.

59.   New Jersey is also pumping more money into special education, one of the fastest growing parts of the education budget.

60.   President Bush was ready to announce a bipartisan agreement on part of his education budget Wednesday.