41.   The mayor was on target when he suggested that CUNY remedial programs needed reworking.

42.   The retention figure is considered important because students in remedial programs earn no initial credits and take longer to complete their courses of study.

43.   Though expelled from William Howard Taft High School for his felony conviction, he earned an equivalency diploma and enrolled in a remedial program at Bronx Community College.

44.   Tokofsky said the district must totally re-examine the way it spends its federal money for underprivileged children, and divert much of it to remedial programs.

45.   What is more, the remedial programs that the mayor wants to privatize are not an economic drain but actually subsidize more costly programs.

46.   Whether the system can do better by turning to private companies and other colleges to run remedial programs, as the mayor has suggested, is an open question.

47.   With increases for school construction and remedial programs, it becomes clear that children and mothers did well this year.

48.   Wood then set up a remedial reading program at the high school, Love said.