1.   But the school budget is too tight to afford a lot of bus trips.

2.   Most are heavily subsidised and represent excellent value for hard-pressed school budgets.

3.   Nevertheless irate parents clogged hearings devoted to the school budget to attack the middle school changes.

4.   The case for setting out financial implications is obvious in a situation in which the school budget is controlled by the governors.

5.   Thousands of townsmen turned out to vote on the school budget.

6.   The town council handled the tempest over cuts to the school budget as well as could be expected.

7.   The troublesome news that there will be more cuts in the school budget.

8.   Some spending chiefs see cuts desirable, especially in school maintenance budgets.

9.   Adult and community education, youth work, special educational needs, repairs and maintenance and central administration are set to be sacrificed to protect individual school budgets.