Education

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** FILE ** This Jan. 17, 2012, file photo shows vegetables left over by students on their cafeteria trays at the Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

**FILE** A girl sits on a Newtown bus leaving the new Sandy Hook Elementary School after the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., on Jan. 3, 2013. The Sandy Hook students started that day in their new school, formerly called Chalk Hill School in Monroe. It was renamed Sandy Hook Elementary and overhauled especially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting. (Associated Press)

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A bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., to neighboring Monroe stops in front of 26 “angels” along the roadside on the first day of classes in Monroe on Thursday for Sandy Hook Elementary School students. A vacant Chalk Hill School in Monroe was overhauled especially for the students after the Sandy Hook School shootings that killed 26 on Dec. 14. (Associated Press)

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associated press photographs Heisman Trophy runner-up Manti Te’o (top) won a litany of major awards in addition to being an Academic All-American in design. Alabama’s Barrett Jones (bottom), who won major awards for offensive linemen the past two seasons, just finished graduate school in accounting.

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** FILE ** This Dec. 7, 2012, file photo shows novelist Stephen King speaking to creative writing students at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in Lowell, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

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A sign for Chalk Hill School is seen in Monroe, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Sandy Hook Elementary School students will begin classes on Thursday at Chalk Hill School. The school was overhauled specially for them in the neighboring town of Monroe, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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** FILE ** In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, a school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are starting Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, for the Sandy Hook students at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students' desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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A bill introduced in the Missouri Senate would require parents to disclose their gun ownership status to local schools. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, a school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are starting Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 for the Sandy Hook students at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students' desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Filipino slum dwellers Jessa Balote (center) and Jamil Montebon (top) practice with other students during a class at Ballet Manila. Aside from well-off students, the school picks scholars among kids living in slum areas of Manila and enrolls them in the dance scholarship program where they are given a monthly stipend. (Associated Press)