41.   They also view the program as a way to help poor children escape failing schools.

42.   This year, only students at the two failing schools in Pensacola qualified for vouchers.

43.   To get off the list, failing schools must accept restructuring, then set target improvement scores and reach them.

44.   Under his proposal, the federal government could take aid away from chronically failing schools and give it directly to low-income parents.

45.   Vouchers are public subsidies given to children in failing schools to attend private schools.

46.   Bush defended his school voucher plan as a critical consequence for chronically failing schools.

47.   Bush has proposed phasing out federal funding of failing schools and giving the money to parents in the form of vouchers so they can seek alternative schooling.

48.   Despite certain opposition, President-elect Bush is sticking by a plan to shift federal education money away from failing schools and into the hands of parents.

49.   Failing schools would receive increased funds, although if scores did not improve after six years the schools could be restaffed.

50.   For another, the law permits good schools to refuse to educate children from failing schools because of space limitations.