11.   Federal spending, such as education aid, housing programs, welfare and nutrition programs, is targeted on the needy.

12.   He said the governors also want Congress to enact legislation that gives states more control over job-training programs, federal health-care funding and education aid.

13.   He would give parents the freedom to use federal education aid for private schools or tutoring, while Gore would not.

14.   He said the school would be geared to dropouts, for whom the city does not receive state education aid anyway.

15.   Huge differences between the two sides remain over spending for the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly, education aid, and environmental enforcement, among other things.

16.   So it was odd to find that their proposed budget would raise education aid to wealthy districts next year much faster than aid to poor districts.

17.   That year, the Whitman administration initiated a policy of minimal annual increases in state education aid to local districts.

18.   That taxpayer revolt helped sweep Gov. Whitman into power last year and last spring she imposed a virtual freeze on state education aid.

19.   The group said Albany should cut education aid to the wealthiest school districts.

20.   The House version, though less strict, also targets education aid to the foreign-born who live in this country legally.