Education

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The new cover of Time magazine features a dramatic photo of the students who have been leading the push for stricter gun control laws in the aftermath of last month's mass shooting at their school in Parkland, Florida. (TIME)

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Illustration on the positives of armed personnel protecting schools by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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President Barack Obama speaks before signing the "Every Student Succeeds Act," a major education law setting U.S. public schools on a new course of accountability, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, in Washington. The law will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools are pushed to improve. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Crime scene tape runs outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Authorities opened the streets around the school, which had been closed since a mass shooting on Wednesday. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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One of the obstacles in the endurance course is climbing over rope netting and then crossing over balance beams. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle, which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.

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First Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, lift each other over a 12-foot obstacle during the endurance course. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.

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FILE - Students at Roosevelt High School take part in a protest against gun violence Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Seattle. Politicians in Washington state are joining students who walked out of class to protest against gun violence. It was part of a nationwide school walkout that calls for stricter gun laws following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)

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Crime scene tape is used around Great Mills High School, the scene of a shooting, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Great Mills. A student with a handgun shot two classmates inside the school before he was fatally wounded during a confrontation with a school resource officer, a sheriff said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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This undated photo provided by the St. Mary's Sheriff's Office, shows Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill, a school resource officer who engaged a shooter at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Md., on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. It wasn't immediately clear whether the shooter took his own life or was killed by the officer's bullet, St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said, but the Gaskill was credited with preventing any more loss of life. (St. Mary's Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo released by the Broward Sheriff's Office shows Zachary Cruz. Cruz, the brother of Nikolas Cruz charged with killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was arrested Monday, March 19, 2018 and charged for trespassing at the same school, authorities said. (Broward Sheriff's Office via AP)

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Students and gun control advocates march to the Capitol Building in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. One month after a mass shooting in Florida, students and advocates across the country participate in walkouts and protests to call on Congress for action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Illustration on school choice fro military families by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this image made from video, Zachary Cruz cries as his brother, Nikolas Cruz is arraigned at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Cruz is accused of opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, killing 17 students and adults. (WSVN via AP, Pool)

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David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, two students who survived last month's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said Monday that the National Rifle Association has been "basically threatening" them. (CBS News)

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FILE - In this March 18, 2016, file photo, the Holy Cross mascot claps as player leave the court after a first-round men's NCAA college basketball game against Oregon in in Spokane, Wash. The president of the College of the Holy Cross says the Jesuit school will stop using the image of a knight as a logo and mascot even though trustees last month decided to keep the Crusaders athletic nickname. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)

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This undated photo released by the Bermuda Police Service shows American college student Mark Dombroski, who has been reported missing in Bermuda. Bermuda police Dombroski was on a rugby tour with Saint Josephs University, a college near Philadelphia, when he disappeared early Sunday, March 18, 2018. (Courtesy of Bermuda Police Service via AP)