1.   Critics of such parental activities argue that activist parents should be devoting their energies to lobbying legislatures to fund all schools adequately.

2.   Many state schools would be funded by private firms.

3.   The school is funded by the local education authority.

4.   Funding church schools is foolishly promoting bigotry and intolerance.

5.   A Muslim school in Yorkshire has been refused state funding despite staff protests that Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools are funded.

6.   Bush wants the state to do a better job funding local schools.

7.   Charbonneau said she had hoped the counties could have received some of the national tobacco settlement money, which is instead being used for funding the schools.

8.   Community schools are funded under state law but are run by their own school boards, not by local school districts.

9.   If we make significant changes in the way we fund schools, we will have to revisit public school finance.