31.   States in the South and Southwest complained that the existing funding formula is based on outdated census figures and unfairly benefits northeastern states.

32.   State officials argued that the funding formula was flawed.

33.   States would be given block grants with few strings attached, and a compromise funding formula would give extra money to high-growth Sunbelt states.

34.   The Arizona Supreme Court agreed, and ruled the funding formula unconstitutional.

35.   The bill also would change the funding formula in an attempt to shift funds to areas where the disease is rising.

36.   The basic rules and funding formulas for Title I programs, the biggest source of federal aid to schools with lots of low-income students, would be left unchanged.

37.   The bill contains a change in the funding formula that determines where AIDS money goes.

38.   The funding formulas in this bill are byzantine - one of them is three pages long, single- spaced.

39.   The funding formula is complex, but sound, Slavkin said.

40.   The numbers may also have gone up because funding formulas give additional aid for every student diagnosed as disabled.