71.   Those who felt strongly that poor children in failing schools should have a choice were left with little hope for passing legislation.

72.   To help rebuild failing schools, they will need to make peace with a painful past and focus their energies on the here and now.

73.   Under the plan, failing schools have two years before parents will be allowed to send their children elsewhere.

74.   Under those provisions, all teachers at failing schools can be transferred.

75.   Vouchers, Fuller says, will help close the gap by giving minority parents the power to get their children out of failing schools.

76.   What is left is a testing provision that would force states to identify failing schools, but even that is weaker than he wanted.

77.   When the state list of failing schools came out, he was on a personal trip to Connecticut, according to a spokeswoman.

78.   While millions of children are getting such an education, there are far too many children who are trapped in failing schools.

79.   Parents in failing schools would have the option of transferring their children into other public schools, or using federal money for private school or other educational services.

80.   -- Empower low-income families to escape persistently failing schools by allowing federal dollars to follow their children to the school of their choice through opportunity scholarships.