Education

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"It's not good enough if the children who live in the right ZIP code are excelling in the classroom and moving on to college while families trapped within a low income community have a mediocre education at best and a failing school at worst," Republican Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II says. (Associated press)

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FILE- This 1990s file photo shows baseball player Alex Rodriguez when he played for Westminster Christian high school in Miami. (AP Photo/Miami Herald, David Bergman, File)

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**FILE** Republican presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan shakes hands on May 8, 1999, with Nancy Ruth Mace as she became the first female graduate of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. Neither Citadel officials nor Buchanan mentioned Mace or the school's controversial all-male admission's policy during the ceremony. Mace entered The Citadel in 1996 after the school dropped that policy. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama helps stain shelves during a National Day of Service school improvement project at Burrville Elementary School in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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**FILE** New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers a speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., on July 30, 2013. During her speech, the first as the head of the EPA, McCarthy told an audience that curbing climate-altering pollution will strengthen the economy. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Practice air-powered handguns sit on a teacher's desk in a classroom at Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Ark., on July 11, 2013. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training during the summer to be armed security guards on campus. (Associated Press)

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Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins, middle, motivates students while leading drills during Kirk Cousins Football Camp at Hope College in Holland, Mich., Thursday, July 11, 2013. The camp was open to middle school boys. Cousins played football at Michigan State and at Holland Christian High School. (AP Photo/Grand Rapids Press, Cory Morse)

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** FILE ** The American Federation of Teachers in West Virginia is considering a lawsuit over a new dress code that bars faculty from wearing blue jeans. (Associated Press)