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Students walk through the gates outside Benjamin E. Mays Academy in Chicago on Sept. 19, 2012, after city teachers voted the previous day to suspend their first strike in 25 years. (Associated Press)

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Campus supervisor Jerome Castaneda monitors the parking lot following dismissal at Arroyo Seco Junior High School in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Eric Yee, accused of posting comments on ESPN's website saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them, is in jail on $1 million bail after he was arrested at his home near the school for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said. (AP Photo/Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jonathan Pobre)

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A fourth-century fragment of papyrus quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife, Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen L. King says. (AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)

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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, smiles Sept. 18, 2012, as she talks with reporters in Chicago after the union's House of Delegates voted to suspend a seven-day strike. (Associated Press)

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Mary Edmonds, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates, celebrates after the delegates voted to suspend the strike against the school district Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Teachers strike in 2012 because the mayor of Chicago asked for concessions. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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** FILE ** A handful of teachers picket Sept. 17, 2012, outside Shoop Elementary School in Chicago, as a strike by Chicago Teachers Union members headed into its second week. (Associated Press)

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This photo provided by Western Kentucky University, Dan Murph, right, talks about a new museum collection with university President Gary Ransdell on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, in Bowling Green, Ky. Murph came up with the idea of starting a collection of ordinary stuff that was used by people who made noteworthy accomplishments in science, entertainment, the arts and politics.(AP Photo/Western Kentucky University, Clinton Lewis)

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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis (left) listens to union Vice President Jesse Sharkey at a press conference following a meeting of union delegates on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

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Striking Chicago schoolteachers march after a rally on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, in Chicago. Thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers and their allies packed a city park Saturday in a boisterous show of force as union leaders and the district tried to work out the details of an agreement that could end a weeklong walkout. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)