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Students are dismissed from Bunker Hill Elementary School as snow begins to fall in Middletown, Del. Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Thousands of flights were canceled, students got an extra day off from school or were being sent home early, and the federal government closed its offices in the Washington area Tuesday as another winter storm bore down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Daniel Sato) NO SALES
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A man crosses the street as a light snow falls, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Baltimore. Thousands of flights were canceled, students got an extra day off from school or were being sent home early, and the federal government closed its offices in the Washington area Tuesday as another winter storm bore down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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A woman walks outside of an office building as snow falls, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Baltimore. Thousands of flights were canceled, students got an extra day off from school or were being sent home early, and the federal government closed its offices in the Washington area Tuesday as another winter storm bore down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2014 file photo, third-grade teacher Chris Maske explains an assignment at Freeman Elementary in Freeman, S.D. The grammar lesson uses the controversial South Dakota education standards known as Common Core. A South Dakota legislative panel approved a measure Tuesday, Jan. 21 that would set up a study of the Common Core standards now being used for math and English in the state's school districts. (AP Photo/Jeremy Waltner, File)