31.   Texas prisons have about three dozen vocational education programs ranging from small engine repair to electrical training.

32.   The element of race is not far from any discussion about imposing more academic rigor on vocational education.

33.   The House Democratic substitute would have increased the work requirements in current law, but would have given states more latitude to count vocational education as work.

34.   The incentive of free college or vocational education was not usually enough to overcome the emotional and educational shortcomings of many of the teen-agers.

35.   The federal money goes to programs such as vocational education, safe and drug-free schools, and improving basic and advanced skills.

36.   The first federal law subsidizing vocational education, it adds job training to the tasks a high school is expected to carry out.

37.   The measure, in addition to community colleges, would place post-secondary vocational education programs under the regents.

38.   These ideas include consolidating job training programs into a system of vouchers, offering new tax deductions for college and vocational education and raising the minimum wage.

39.   This change, critics have charged, resulted in academic programs floundering at the expense of vocational education.

40.   Vocational education and school-to-work transition programs fall short, and the need for them will only grow.