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Ohio Gov. John Kasich discusses school reform in the state, during a legislative forum hosted by The Associated Press on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. Kasich said he wants fast action on education changes but understands such changes can take time. (AP Photo)
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FILE - Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer is seen in this undated file photo provided by Ritzer's family via The Eagle-Tribune. Philip Chism, a 15-year-old boy charged with killing Ritzer, is returning to court Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, for arraignment on a second rape charge. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dale Webster via The Eagle-Tribune, File)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY FEB. 3 - Zeke the Wonder Dog chases a frisbee thrown by the Brighton B.U.G. robot during a basketball halftime exhibition at Brighton High School in Brighton, Mich., Friday Jan. 24, 2014. The robot was designed by the Brighton High School robotics team. (AP Photo/Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, Alan Ward) NO SALES
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY FEB. 3 - With Brighton High School students Bryce Feiler, left, and Drew Disler at the joystick controls, the Brighton B.U.G robot fires a white frisbee from its upper deck during a practice session in the school's auto shop facility Thursday Jan. 23, 2014, in Brighton, Mich. The robotics team was preparing for a half time exhibition in which discs thrown by the robot are caught by Zeke The Wonder Dog. (AP Photo/Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, Alan Ward) NO SALES
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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, Phillip Chism, 14, from Danvers, Mass., is lead into the court room at his arraignment in Salem Superior Court in Salem, Mass. Chism, accused of raping and killing Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer in October, is returning to court Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 for arraignment on a second rape charge. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Paul Bilodeau, Pool, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 1 AND THEREAFTER - In this Jan. 16, 2014 photo, Sydney Gramm, center, laughs as she tries to move in a wheelchair as Savanna Klobnak, 14, right, gives her classmates at Germantown Hills Middle School a chance to sit in her chair as they play wheelchair basketball in Germantown Hills, Ill. Klobnak uses a wheelchair because of spina bifida. Klobnak and nine teammates, ages 7 to 16, play on the Peoria Wildcats wheelchair basketball team in a program run by the Heart of Illinois Special Recreation Association. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 file photo, Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, right, and some pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class at the Sheltering Arms Learning Center in New York in a program that was produced in conjunction with the Sesame Street children's television show to educate children about nutrition and health. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten. Researchers think there may be a window of opportunity to prevent it, and "we keep pushing our critical window earlier and earlier on," said Solveig Cunningham, a scientist at Emory University. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics' students Lucy Su, top, Gabrielle Beaudry, center, and Luckshume Ketheeswaran slide down a hill at the Hillsndale Golf Course in Durham N.C. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. A rare snowstorm left thousands across the U.S. South frozen in their tracks, with workers sleeping in their offices, students camping in their schools, and commuters abandoning cars along the highway to seek shelter in churches or even grocery stores. (AP Photo/The Herald-Sun, Bernard Thomas)
