Distance-Learning Project on Bush's Budget 'Hit List'

By Julie A. Miller

WASHINGTON--As part of an election-year challenge to the Congress, President Bush last week presented lawmakers with a $3.6-billion list of projects he would like to cut from the current federal budget, including one school-related program: an appropriation that would fund a satellite-based environmental-education project.

Administration officials characterized programs on the list as obviously wasteful "pork''--unnecessary or parochial projects funded at the behest of individual lawmakers.

But the Administration appears to have inaccurately described the $400,000 environmental-education grant...