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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014, file photo, high school senior Rachel Canning appears in Morris County Superior Court in Morristown, N.J. The Daily Record of Parsippany says Canning, the honor student who sued her parents for financial support, announced on Facebook that she plans to attend Western New England University as a biomedical engineering major and has won a $56,000 scholarship. (AP Photo/Daily Record, Bob Karp, Pool, File)
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CORRECTS THAT MANAR IS FROM BUNKER HILL, INSTEAD OF STAUNTON - Illinois Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, introduces an education funding reform bill that would put almost all state education funding into one pot and then require districts to demonstrate need before receiving part of it, a significant shift from the current method, which factors in a district's poverty for some types of state aid, but not others, during a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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CORRECTS THAT MANAR IS FROM BUNKER HILL, INSTEAD OF STAUNTON - Illinois Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, introduces an education funding reform bill that would put almost all state education funding into one pot and then require districts to demonstrate need before receiving part of it, a significant shift from the current method, which factors in a district's poverty for some types of state aid, but not others, during a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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CORRECTS THAT MANAR IS FROM BUNKER HILL, INSTEAD OF STAUNTON - Illinois Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, introduces an education funding reform bill that would put almost all state education funding into one pot and then require districts to demonstrate need before receiving part of it, a significant shift from the current method, which factors in a district's poverty for some types of state aid, but not others, during a news conference at the state Capitol on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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First lady Michelle Obama talks with Friendship Public Charter Elementary School student Dynasty Meade, right, and Bancroft Elementary School student Silas Stutz, second from right in yellow, as they plant Lincoln oats in the White House Kitchen Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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First lady Michelle Obama helps to hold a watering can after she and Friendship Public Charter Elementary School student Dynasty Meade, center, and Bancroft Elementary School student Silas Stutz, right, planted broccoli in the White House Kitchen Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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First lady Michelle Obama holds a watering can after she and Friendship Public Charter Elementary School student Dynasty Meade, center, and Bancroft Elementary School student Silas Stutz, right, planted broccoli in the White House Kitchen Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)