1.   His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, says vouchers will drain needed resources from public schools.

2.   Laney said vouchers would drain money from the public schools and do particular damage to school districts in rural areas such as his own.

3.   Opponents say vouchers drain money from public schools, isolate the most troublesome students, and make struggling schools even worse.

4.   Other say the vouchers would drain money from public schools.

5.   They argue that vouchers will drain public funds and the best students from already beleaguered public schools.

6.   Vouchers can drain public funds from public schools, making them worse for the students who remain and diminishing hope for improvement.

7.   Vouchers drain funds from public schools, which are then supposed, somehow, to improve themselves.