31.   He also proposed full-day kindergarten, along with a program to boost parental involvement, at those failing schools.

32.   He has also pledged to straighten out the special-education mess and to conduct a serious housecleaning at failing schools and corrupt local boards.

33.   He has no taste for vouchers that allow school choice, as Bush advocates, and is equally wary of shuttering failing schools, as Gore has proposed.

34.   He immediately served notice that he intended to stretch the powers of his office to the limit, seizing control of more than a dozen failing schools.

35.   He said the plan also provides training for teachers in failing schools and mentoring and test preparation for some students.

36.   He would use federal money to help increase teacher salaries, a novel proposal in a presidential campaign, and to provide incentives to failing schools to reverse course.

37.   He wants to grade schools from A to F and then work with failing schools to improve their performance.

38.   He would respond to failing schools by requiring them to adopt aggressive plans to overhaul themselves and would devote extra money to providing after-school instruction to students.

39.   In addition, Bush has suggested that failing schools could lose federal funds, which then could be used at private institutions in states that allow such a transfer.

40.   In failing schools, the principals and teachers had gone on teaching the watered-down curriculum.