Education

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A woman takes her children by taxi to Public School 33 in New York on Wednesday as more than 8,000 school bus drivers and aides go on strike over job protection. Children who rely on the buses include 54,000 special education students and others who live far from schools or transportation. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A school bus arrives to drop off students in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. A strike by New York City school bus drivers that had been threatened for weeks will start Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, affecting 152,000 students, the president of the union representing the drivers announced on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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This 2011 photo shows Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, who taught Spanish and French at Mariemont High School in Cincinnati from 1976 until 2009, when she was transferred to the district's middle school. Waltherr-Willard is suing the school district where she used to work, accusing its administrators of discriminating against her because of a rare phobia she says she has: a fear of young children. (Associated Press/Community Press, Heidi Fallon)

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** FILE ** A police officer leads two women and a child from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on the day of the mass killings. (Newtown Bee via Associated Press)

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Edner Gue (right) and Labon Florestal work to clean up the earthquake damaged Grande College Auguste Comte de Petionville, in their neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, on Jan. 11, 2013. The director of the elementary and high school is paying workers to clean up his school and plans to open classes even if the government does not rebuild it. On Jan. 12, Haiti will mark the 3rd anniversary of the earthquake that officials say killed more than 300,000 people and displaced more than a million others. The disaster is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. (Associated Press)

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Paramedics transport a student wounded during a shooting on Jan. 10, 2013, at San Joaquin Valley High School in Taft, Calif. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. (Associated Press/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler)

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**FILE** Officials tape off an area outside San Joaquin Valley High School in Taft, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2013. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. (Associated Press/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler)