21.   But a Senate version of the education bill, now supported by the White House, backs away from such strict accountability.

22.   But all that may change this fall, when Congress votes on its yearly education spending bill.

23.   But attempts to first get to the education bill have stalled action on other legislation.

24.   Bush, Kennedy said, would also find it politically difficult to veto an education bill with IDEA money.

25.   But he said the Senate would also take up the education bill.

26.   But he said initiatives such as after-school programs should be included in education bills, not crime legislation.

27.   But he was aware that Miller and the Democrats would pull out, killing the education reform bill.

28.   But Latin School does not capture the essence of the promising federal education bill.

29.   But Senate Democrats and some Republicans are stalling his education bill, pointing out that schools suffer in the tax-cut trade-off.

30.   But the education bills moving through Congress contain flaws that will make this goal difficult to achieve.