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Randy Zuckerman talks to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District regarding their pending decision to expel students implicated in a hacking scandal at Corona del Mar High School on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Costa Mesa, Calif. The school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at a wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board deliberated for hours and emerged shortly after midnight Wednesday to announce it had decided to approve all the recommendations from administrators at Corona del Mar High School. Many of those recommendations involve punishment that is less severe than an expulsion, but the district could not give further specifics on the discipline, citing confidentiality rules, (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Rod Veal) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT

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Yolanda Newton, a parent of a student at Newport Harbor High, speaks to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Costa Mesa, Calif. The school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at a wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board deliberated for hours and emerged shortly after midnight Wednesday to announce it had decided to approve all the recommendations from administrators at Corona del Mar High School. Many of those recommendations involve punishment that is less severe than an expulsion, but the district could not give further specifics on the discipline, citing confidentiality rules, (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Rod Veal) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT

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Karen Yelsey, from left, Martha Fluor, Judith Franco, Walt Davenport and David Brooks, all members of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board, listen to Dennis Ashendorf in a public comments meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Costa Mesa, Calif. The school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at the wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board deliberated for hours and emerged shortly after midnight Wednesday to announce it had decided to approve all the recommendations from administrators at Corona del Mar High School. Many of those recommendations involve punishment that is less severe than an expulsion, but the district could not give further specifics on the discipline, citing confidentiality rules, (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Rod Veal) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT

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Art teacher, Leigh Walker, entertains students over breakfast that spent the night at Oak Mountain Intermediate school on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Indian Springs, Ala. About 80 children and 20 adults spent the night at the school due to a winter storm. Tuesday's storm deposited mere inches of snow, barely enough to qualify as a storm up North. And yet it was more than enough to paralyze the Deep South. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

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Sydney Jaffe, left, and Peyton Meadors, right, play a card game with others students stranded at Oak Mountain Intermediate school on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Indian Springs, Ala. About 80 children and 20 adults spent the night at the school due to a winter storm. Tuesday's storm deposited mere inches of snow, barely enough to qualify as a storm up North. And yet it was more than enough to paralyze the Deep South. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

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Christopher Boothby reads a book while relaxing in a bean bag chair at Oak Mountain Intermediate school on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Indian Springs, Ala. About 80 children and 20 adults spent the night at the school due to a winter storm. Overnight, the South saw fatal crashes and hundreds of fender-benders. Jackknifed 18-wheelers littered Interstate 65 in central Alabama. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

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In this artists rendering provided by The University of Notre Dame is the school's new football stadium. Notre Dame announced plans Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 to expand the school’s 84-year-old football stadium, adding up to 4,000 premium seats and spending about $400 million to add buildings on three sides of the “House that Rockne Built.” (AP Photo/The University of Notre Dame)