1.   As he has in the past, he proposed simplifying the cumbersome school aid formulas, collapsing several streams of revenue into one block grant.

2.   By the end of the summer, they say, they will sue the state on the grounds that its school financing formula hurts rural children, too.

3.   By the end of the summer, they say, they will sue the state on the grounds that its school financing formula hurts rural schoolchildren.

4.   Few disagree that property tax reform that provides tax cuts, such as those suggested by Bush, can be done without changing complex school finance formulas.

5.   He voted to strip the city of its ability to regulate watershed development, and he indicates that the school aid formula seems fair to him.

6.   Leaders in both the Senate and Assembly said any plan to overhaul the state school aid formulas would face an uphill political battle.

7.   Pataki said Tuesday that he did not want a judge determining school aid formulas.

8.   Pataki has promised to rectify the school aid formula but is putting it off.

9.   The group was accusing the state of using a school financing formula that shortchanged schoolchildren in New York City of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

10.   The state needs to be pressed harder to change the school aid formulas that discriminate against New York City.