1.   Pates Grammar school was recently named as the best performing school in Gloucestershire.

2.   As part of his education plan, Bush has proposed closing poorly performing schools and allowing parents to use federal funds to send students to private or parochial schools.

3.   Al Gore has gone into low performing schools and claimed my plan would undermine them.

4.   Florida students already have many options available to them if they are in low performing schools.

5.   Gore has proposed holding poorly performing schools accountable by shutting them down and later reopening them with new administrators and with teachers who have received new training.

6.   In his previous speeches Bush also advocated that the federal government reward schools that perform well with more money and withhold funds for lower performing schools.

7.   Sen. Ken Bennett, a Prescott Republican, helped write the law, thinking it would label only the worst performing schools.

8.   The poorest performing schools will be required to submit action plans.

9.   Under state education law, Mills said, the education commissioner can order a local school board to develop a corrective plan for a poorly performing school.