61.   Even privately funded voucher programs can meet with resistance.

62.   Florida has two school voucher programs.

63.   Florida would become the first state to have a statewide school voucher program.

64.   Florida has just begun a statewide school voucher program pushed by Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of the would-be next president.

65.   For years, conservative lawmakers have tried to create a voucher program to send kids to private schools with state money.

66.   Four years ago, the court declined to consider an appeal of a similar voucher program in Milwaukee.

67.   For instance, they removed from proposed District of Columbia funding an administration-opposed provision that would have established a private school voucher program for poor children.

68.   Furthermore, results of a recent long-term study of the voucher program in Milwaukee, Wis., could make vouchers an even harder sell in Texas.

69.   Gov. Whitman acknowledges that Republican legislators outside Jersey City have little to gain by supporting her voucher pilot program.

70.   Gone is his voucher program, much to the dismay of the conservatives, and mostly gone is his plan to give states greater control over federal dollars.