Education

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Jana Grcevich, a post-doc scholar in the astronomy department, right, works with Wanda Vargas, center, and Noah Kaminsky as part of a 15-month master’s program in teaching at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The program is the only freestanding graduate program at a museum in the U.S. Students are on a paid fellowship but must commit to teaching earth science at a high-needs public school for at least four years after they graduate. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Curator of Astrophysics Mordecai-Mark Mac Low points out features on a projected movie during a 15-month master’s program in teaching at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The program is the only freestanding graduate program at a museum in the U.S. Students are on a paid fellowship but must commit to teaching earth science at a high-needs public school for at least four years after they graduate. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Curator of Astrophysics Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, second from right, works with students as part of a 15-month master’s program in teaching at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The program is the only freestanding graduate program at a museum in the U.S. Students are on a paid fellowship but must commit to teaching earth science at a high-needs public school for at least four years after they graduate. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Students work on exercises as part of a 15-month master’s program in teaching at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The program is the only freestanding graduate program at a museum in the U.S. Students are on a paid fellowship but must commit to teaching earth science at a high-needs public school for at least four years after they graduate. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Arizona's T.J. McConnell celebrates a 3-point basket against Arizona State during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Construction crews work on a graduate student housing project on the campus of the University of Nevada-Reno just southeast of Mackay Stadium, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. It's one of 10 major building projects scheduled to break ground at UNR over the next five years. They are expected to generate more than $460 million for the Reno-area economy. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

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Construction crews work on a graduate student housing project on the campus of the University of Nevada-Reno just southeast of Mackay Stadium, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. It's one of 10 major building projects scheduled to break ground at UNR over the next five years. They are expected to generate more than $460 million for the Reno-area economy. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

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This undated handout photo provided by the University of South Florida College of Medicine shows Dr. Francisco Fernandez, who was named the founding dean of the new School of Medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/University of South Florida College of Medicine)

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This Feb. 8, 2014 image provided by Reed College shows damage caused by a large snowball that crashed into a Grove Quad dormitory at Reed College in Portlend, Ore. The crash ripped a wall off its studs and narrowly missed a window. No one was injured in the collision. College officials say the ball was some 40 inches in diameter and weighed from 800 to 900 pounds.(AP Photo/Reed College)

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This Feb. 8, 2014 image provided by Reed College shows a large snowball that crashed into a Grove Quad dormitory at Reed College in Portland, Ore. The crash ripped a wall off its studs and narrowly missed a window. No one was injured in the collision. College officials say the ball was some 40 inches in diameter and weighed from 800 to 900 pounds.(AP Photo/Reed Magazine)

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This Feb. 8, 2014 image provided by Reed College shows a large snowball that crashed into a Grove Quad dormitory at Reed College in Portland, Ore. The crash ripped a wall off its studs and narrowly missed a window. No one was injured in the collision. College officials say the ball was some 40 inches in diameter and weighed from 800 to 900 pounds.(AP Photo/Reed College)

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Ninth grade students in John Schneggenburger's biology class learn how to map pedigrees in genetics at Copper Mountain Middle School on Jan. 29, 2014 in Herriman, Utah. When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms. In reality, much of that money was spoken for, by the state retirement system, long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found. In the Salt Lake City and Alpine school districts, not one cent of the increased student funding made it into classrooms. All of it went to the state retirement system and/or rising health care costs. It's a pattern that could repeat this year unless lawmakers find more money per student than what's so far been proposed. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

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Ninth grade students in John Schneggenburger's biology class learn how to map pedigrees in genetics on Jan. 29, 2014 at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms. In reality, much of that money was spoken for, by the state retirement system, long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found. In the Salt Lake City and Alpine school districts, not one cent of the increased student funding made it into classrooms. All of it went to the state retirement system and/or rising health care costs. It's a pattern that could repeat this year unless lawmakers find more money per student than what's so far been proposed. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

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Ninth grade students in John Schneggenburger's biology class learn how to map pedigrees in genetics on Jan. 29, 2014 at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms. In reality, much of that money was spoken for, by the state retirement system, long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found. In the Salt Lake City and Alpine school districts, not one cent of the increased student funding made it into classrooms. All of it went to the state retirement system and/or rising health care costs. It's a pattern that could repeat this year unless lawmakers find more money per student than what's so far been proposed. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

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Ninth grade students in Tami Ewell's Language Arts class work on a sentence structure lesson on Jan. 29, 2014 at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms. In reality, much of that money was spoken for, by the state retirement system, long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found. In the Salt Lake City and Alpine school districts, not one cent of the increased student funding made it into classrooms. All of it went to the state retirement system and/or rising health care costs. It's a pattern that could repeat this year unless lawmakers find more money per student than what's so far been proposed. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

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Ninth grade students in Tami Ewell's Language Arts class work on a sentence structure lesson on Jan. 29, 2014 at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms. In reality, much of that money was spoken for, by the state retirement system, long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found. In the Salt Lake City and Alpine school districts, not one cent of the increased student funding made it into classrooms. All of it went to the state retirement system and/or rising health care costs. It's a pattern that could repeat this year unless lawmakers find more money per student than what's so far been proposed. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)