1.   Although that would be a good thing and serve to boost public accountability of education tax dollars and maybe improve their schools, it would remove some local control.

2.   And it is considered politically correct for corporations to target their education dollars at needy schools.

3.   And education dollars are few and far between.

4.   At the Institute, Rotherham worked the Heritage Foundation and other groups to broker a compromise on how best to use federal education dollars to help poor children.

5.   But Bush and many Republicans want to give states education dollars in lump sums, granting them broad discretion in deciding how to spend the money.

6.   But a state-by-state analysis of test scores and reform efforts provides a mixed picture for politicians arguing over how best to spend education dollars.

7.   But face-saving details could still upset a deal, as could a continuing debate about education dollars.

8.   Conservatives pressed him to support an amendment that would funnel federal education dollars to states in block grants, allowing states to decide how to spend the money.

9.   Congressional Republicans want to loosen or sever strings on federal education dollars so that state and local governments can have greater flexibility in spending them.

10.   Education dollars return many times over.