Clinton Speech Issues Education 'Challenges'

By Robert C. Johnston

Washington

President Clinton touched on a long list of education-related issues in his State of the Union Address last week, from school uniforms to school technology, and asked Congress to create $1,000 scholarships for top high school students.

In his hourlong speech before a joint session of the House and Senate, Mr. Clinton portrayed himself as eager to work out deals on a balanced budget and welfare reform despite an intransigent Republican Congress insistent on spending cuts "that undermine our obligations to our parents, our...