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**FILE** U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney, D-Conn., speaks at a news conference at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Courtney was announcing a new higher education initiative for veterans. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez signs the state's $6 billion budget surrounded by students at Puesta del Sol elementary school in Rio Rancho, N.M., on Tuesday March 11, 2014. Gov. Martinez state budget eliminated pay raises for judges, district attorneys and appointed government workers. Martinez cut spending about $27 million with line-item vetoes, including $2.4 million that lawmakers had provided for 8 percent salary increases for judges and district attorneys and about 3 percent raises for workers in appointed government positions. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Southwest Michigan First CEO Ron Kitchens and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of MPI Research William U. Parfet look at artist renderings of the new Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Tuesday, March 11, 2014, during the unveiling of the school's name Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Frank Sardone, president and CEO of Bronson Healthcare, Paul Spaude, president and CEO of Borgess Health, Hal Jensen founding dean of the medical school unveal posters after Western Michigan University President John Dunn announced the new name of the university's medical school as the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Western Michigan University President John Dunn speaks during ceremony annoucning the new name of its medical school as the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Audience members listens as Western Michigan University President John Dunn announced the new name of the university's medical school as the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Paul Spaude, president and CEO of Borgess Health, left, Frank Sardone, president and CEO of Bronson Healthcare, and Hal Jensen, founding dean of the WMU medical school, aplaude after Western Michigan University President John Dunn announced the new name of the university's medical school as the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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FILE- In this Feb. 24, 2014 file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich delivers his State of the State address at the Performing Arts Center in Medina, Ohio. Kasich announced Tuesday, March 11, in an election-year policy, cuts to Ohio’s income tax, raising the tax rate on Ohio's big oil and gas drillers, and improvements Ohio's education system. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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Gov. Jay Inslee, center, escorts elementary school students on a "walking school bus" Tuesday morning, March 11, 2014, in Seattle. Inslee joined about two dozen students on their way to class at West Seattle Elementary School in his effort to support walking to school as part of his "Healthiest Next Generation" initiative. The "walking school bus" is a study conducted in part by Seattle Children's Hospital to look at the health benefits of walking to and from school. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Gov. Jay Inslee, center, escorts elementary school students on a "walking school bus" Tuesday morning, March 11, 2014, in Seattle. Inslee joined about two dozen students on their way to class at West Seattle Elementary School in his effort to support walking to school as part of his "Healthiest Next Generation" initiative. The "walking school bus" is a study conducted in part by Seattle Children's Hospital to look at the health benefits of walking to and from school. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Gov. Jay Inslee, center, shakes hands with kindergartner Shane-Alan Tino as the boy joins other elementary school students on a "walking school bus" Tuesday morning, March 11, 2014, in Seattle. Inslee joined about two dozen students on their way to class at West Seattle Elementary School in his effort to support walking to school as part of his "Healthiest Next Generation" initiative. The "walking school bus" is a study conducted in part by Seattle Children's Hospital to look at the health benefits of walking to and from school. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Monday, March 10, 2014 photo, Trinity High School senior Allison Meyer wears a T-shirt with the phrase "We Will Rise Again" as she and her classmates began attending classes at St. Joseph's Catholic Church for the remaining school year after their school in Dickinson, N.D., was shut down following a March 3 fire that was allegedly set by the school's principal. Principal Thomas Sander, 30, is due back in court April 21 and could enter pleas then to charges of felony arson and endangering by fire or explosion. The 250 students at Trinity are spread out among two elementary schools, a junior high school and a church. (AP Photo/Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary)
