Education

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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)

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** FILE ** A school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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**FILE** Penn State coach Joe Paterno smiles as he walks the field before an NCAA college football game against Minnesota in State College, Pa., on Oct. 17, 2009. (Associated Press)

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Rev. Mel Kawakami (center) of the Newtown United Methodist Church and Rabbi Shaul Praver (right) of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown speak in Newtown, Conn., at an interfaith prayer vigil to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on Dec. 28, 2012, two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at the school. (Associated Press/Danbury News-Times)

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**FILE** Pakistani students carve wooden statues in the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, on Dec. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Thomas Springsteen stands near a window to download music onto his phone during a class session at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J., on Oct. 10, 2012. Springsteen is participating in a music class for service men and women that helps them cope with their life after the military through a program called Voices of Valor. (Associated Press)