11.   Bush, as a lever against failing schools, would give vouchers for private-school tuition to low-income parents whose children attend public schools that do not improve.

12.   Bush and Gore have jumped aboard the accountability bandwagon, although they propose different consequences for failing schools.

13.   But rebuilding failing schools is part of the nationwide trend for accountability, the most sweeping change in education in decades.

14.   But the effort to rescue millions of disadvantaged children from failing schools can succeed only if Bush places the full weight of his office behind this new law.

15.   But the parents of children in failing schools wonder what will it take to get their children to just raise their hands and take a turn at reading.

16.   But she said the provisions for transferring from a failing school were inadequate because they did not include private schools.

17.   But the outcry over failing schools has reached Congress too.

18.   By comparison, the Hamilton County, Tenn., school district, which includes Chattanooga, is second in that state after Memphis in its number of failing schools.

19.   Children in failing schools that receive federal money would be able to switch to other public schools right away.

20.   Children in failing schools would be able to transfer to another public school after one year and could use some federal funds to pay for transportation.