Education

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In this April 3, 2014 photo, Deputy Kansas Education Commissioner Dale Dennis watches a state House committee debate over a school funding plan at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Dennis has been the state's leading expert for decades on the state's formulas for distributing its aid. A school funding plan recently enacted in Kansas is projected to provide $12 million less than previously thought for public school classrooms, and the top State Department of Education official publicly apologized Tuesday for "confusion" surrounding its estimates. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. Two weeks after Islamic extremists stormed a remote boarding school in northeast Nigeria, more than 200 girls and young women remain missing despite a “hot pursuit” by security forces and desperate parents heading into a dangerous forest in search of their daughters. Some dozens have managed to escape their captors, jumping from the back of an open truck or escaping into the bush from a forest hideout, although the exact number of escapees is unclear. (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan)

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CORRECTS CITY TO DEER LODGE, MONT. INSTEAD OF LAME DEER - Steve Wahrlich, of Billings, Mont. who once employed Barry Beach, speaks in support of Beach to the Board of Pardons and Parole, as the board considers Beach's clemency request, in Deer Lodge, Mont. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Beach was sentenced to 100 years in prison without parole in the 1979 beating death of a high school classmate when he was 17. (AP Photo/The Great Falls Tribune, Larry Beckner) NO SALES

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In this April 27, 2014 photo, a display box is seen on a solar-powered picnic table at the campus of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The table collects solar rays and allow students to use that energy to charge electronic devices. The Solar Dok table is made of recyclable plastics. It's equipped with an umbrella, four seats, a solar array, a 110-volt charger, the display box and two USB ports. (AP Photo/The Southern, Adam Testa)

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This April 27, 2014 photo shows a solar-powered picnic table near the Life Sciences building and greenhouse at the Southern Illinois University campus in Carbondale. The table collects solar rays and allow students to use that energy to charge electronic devices. The Solar Dok table is made of recyclable plastics. It's equipped with an umbrella, four seats, a solar array, a 110-volt charger, a display box and two USB ports. (AP Photo/The Southern, Adam Testa)

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Fourth-grader Armando Gomez feeds his ballot into a voting machine during voting for a new school name Monday, April 28, 2014, at Washington Elementary School in Sioux City, Iowa. Students at Washington and Whittier schools were choosing between Discovery, Journey, Lewis and Morningside for a name for their new school building which will open in 2015. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Tim Hynds)

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Fourth-graders mark their ballots while voting for a new school name Monday, April 28, 2014, at Washington Elementary School in Sioux City, Iowa. Students at Washington and Whittier schools were choosing between Discovery, Journey, Lewis and Morningside for a name for their new school building which will open in 2015. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Tim Hynds)

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A view of a rain-wrapped tornado looking south from Hazel Green High School is seen as multiple tornadoes raked across Hazel Green and northern Madison County late afternoon Monday, April 28, 2014, in Hazel Green, Ala. (AP Photo/AL.com, Eric Schultz)