Election Notebook

Hillary Rodham Clinton sought this month to align her education agenda with Vice President Al Gore's, while contrasting it with the approach of her Republican opponent in New York's U.S. Senate race, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

"I will work with [Mr. Gore], I will fight with him, I will be by his side as we fix our crumbling schools, as we put more teachers in our classrooms to lower class size, as we improve the quality of education," she said in a March 11 speech to the city's United Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers that is...