31.  Bush said he could not come up with any investment he would consider out of bounds for state money.

32.  But as an additional inducement, the bill also adds a provision that would require schools to meet certain performance standards or risk losing state money.

33.  But Carlin pointed to increased state money and the record fundraising levels.

34.  But by lifting some of the regulations that force localities to match the state money, they would have more discretion in choosing how to spend their own funds.

35.  But if he is successful, he can become the governor who slew the dragon of a notoriously complex set of formulas that restrict how districts spend state money.

36.  But state money will have to keep flowing, so the Mayor has to hope he bet on the right horse.

37.  But the Vermont education department intervened and withheld state money to the school district, saying that its planned tuition payments for parochial schools would be unconstitutional.

38.  But the SROs have made a comeback in the last decade, with city and state money intended to create new and improved housing for the poor and homeless.

39.  But they gave guarded approval to use state surplus money for the river program.

40.  But the questions about Rylander are just the latest in a series that have been raised about investments of state money through funds such as the Permanent School Fund.