21.   A state education advisory board had recommended tying funding to graduates this year, as graduates at the colleges have declined even as state support has increased.

22.   A state education report released in January confirmed it.

23.   According to Joey Lozano, a spokesman for the state education agency, Doss has various options that would bring its per-student wealth below the cap.

24.   According to the rules passed Friday, state education officials must also establish standards by which teachers are evaluated each year by the local school district.

25.   After an uproar, the state education commissioner said the scrubbing would stop.

26.   All appointments would be drawn from a master list of candidates recommended by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by the state education commissioner.

27.   Bush said he is trying to help teachers, principals and students by cutting state education bureaucracy.

28.   But board officials said state education policy required them to take attendance that way.

29.   But Daschle and a former Virginia state education official argued that that particular GOP approach to dealing with school problems would only make things worse.

30.   But he also said that state education officials should spend far more time in urban schools, assessing the problems themselves and sharing their expertise.