61.   Monday Clinton outlined a plan to improve schools by reducing class sizes and providing tax breaks for school construction.

62.   Ms. Sheff said that the legislature was more concerned about luring the New England Patriots to Hartford than in improving the schools there.

63.   Mrs. Clinton said she would support more money for early education and teacher training, as well as spending to improve run-down schools and to reduce class size.

64.   Mrs. Thompson-Gaddy also criticized the takeover, asserting that the school board had been taking steps toward raising standards and improving the schools.

65.   National foundations concerned with improving urban schools have tried to bring in fresh ways of teaching, encourage interest by parents and raise expectations for students.

66.   One features the candidate speaking entirely in Spanish, saying he will work to improve schools and fight crime.

67.   One child said improve schools, another said keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

68.   Politicians and educators hailed the performance by the fourth-graders as evidence that more than a decade of attention to improving American schools was starting to pay off.

69.   Polls show that while Americans overwhelmingly favor change, it is well below fixing the economy or improving schools on their list of priorities.

70.   Prosperity, Bush argued, gave the administration a chance to strengthen the military, improve schools and shore up Social Security and Medicare.