1.   All are afflicted with a rise in overcrowded classrooms, teacher layoffs, and the other crises that accompany financial cutbacks.

2.   Outdated textbooks, Decrepit buildings, overcrowded classrooms - the list of problems is long and growing.

3.   Around the country, schoolchildren are being jammed into overcrowded classrooms and attending old buildings with leaky roofs and inadequate wiring for new technology.

4.   Black schools have little money, overcrowded classrooms, underqualified teachers, and poor equipment.

5.   But other parents say that a school system with overcrowded classrooms should not be using any resources on Bible classes.

6.   If you want kids to do better, the president said, squeezing them into overcrowded classrooms is not the answer.

7.   It would do nothing for public school systems that desperately need aid to deal with crumbling facilities and overcrowded classrooms.

8.   Most students, after spending days in overcrowded classrooms, must leave their instruments at school because of rising rates of theft.

9.   Ms. Messinger, expanding on the theme in remarks to reporters after her speech, pointed to reports of severely overcrowded classrooms.

10.   Racked with overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and low test scores, the flag flap might seem trivial.