We are faced with a backlog of £3.5 billion of school repairs.

We will start to tackle the backlog of school repairs.

He also assigned soldiers to help impoverished towns near the base with medical care, school repairs and other aid.

If the surplus went to private taxpayers, who would pay for school repairs and books or build us a new air traffic control system?

State aid could be channeled into an independent agency, which might then issue its own bonds to pay for school repairs.

The cuts would also delay for at least four years the building of a dozen schools and major school repairs.

But school repair has got to be at the top of the list.

"The lesson here is, the more you defer school repairs, the higher the price."

People go nuts when they suggest raising taxes, even for things like school repairs.

There were also disagreements about the pace of school repair and curriculum reform.