Education

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Carlos Perrett, 18, and Janet Nieto, 18, both senior students at Cesar E. Chavez High School have been admitted to top universities with full scholarships through the support of the EMERGE Fellowship and their own hard work. Both students are the first generation in their families to go to college. Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Marie D. De Jesus)

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An Oct. 2013 photo shows the Sturgis Williams Middle School building that was damaged during the winter storm Atlas. Officials are beginning reconstruction of the middle school in Sturgis that was heavily damaged when its roof collapsed under the weight of 3 feet of snow during an early October blizzard. The school board tawarded a $102,600 contract to a local company to do interior demolition work. The job is to wrap up by the end of March. (AP Photo/Black Hills Pioneer, File)

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Brown University Provost Mark Schlissel is applauded after being named as the new president of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. The Board of Regents approved Schlissel as the 14th person to lead the Ann Arbor school at a special session. Schlissel, 56, is Brown's chief academic officer. Before that, he served as dean of biological sciences at the University of California-Berkeley. He also is a biochemist who received a medical degree and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Brown University Provost Mark Schlissel is applauded after being named as the new president of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. The Board of Regents approved Schlissel as the 14th person to lead the Ann Arbor school at a special session. Schlissel, 56, is Brown's chief academic officer. Before that, he served as dean of biological sciences at the University of California-Berkeley. He also is a biochemist who received a medical degree and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Brown University Provost Mark Schlissel addresses the media Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 after being named as the new president of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Board of Regents approved Schlissel as the 14th person to lead the Ann Arbor school at a special session. Schlissel, 56, is Brown's chief academic officer. Before that, he served as dean of biological sciences at the University of California-Berkeley. He also is a biochemist who received a medical degree and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine walks through the fieldhouse after being introduced to the media Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Berea, Ohio. The 47-year-old Pettine, the son of a legendary Pennsylvania high school coach, spent one year with the Bills after four as Rex Ryan's defensive coordinator with the New York Jets. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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Members of the 144th Military Police Company bow their heads during the benediction at a welcome home ceremony Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, held in the gymnasium of Owosso High School in Owosso, Mich. Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/The Argus-Press, Sally York)

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Spec. Clayton Burns, of Stanton, with wife Amanda Burns, holds his 3-month-old daughter, Emma Burns, for the first after the Michigan National Guard, 144th Military Police Company’s welcome-home ceremony at Owosso High School in Owosso, Mich. Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014.(AP Photo/The Argus-Press, Sally York)