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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)
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Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Khost, south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. A few hundred of university students protested against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, in Khost, shouting "death to America." (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)
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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers union, departs a news conference after her meeting with the union's House of Delegates Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, in Chicago. Lewis told the delegates that a "framework" was in place to end the teachers strike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Lt. Joel Vettel of the Fargo Police Department talks to the media near the North Dakota State University campus in Fargo, N.D., following a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the campus on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday after phoned-in bomb threats prompted evacuations and officials warned students and faculty to get away as quickly as possible. No bombs had been found on either campus by midmorning and it was not clear whether the threats were related. (AP Photo/The Forum, Ryan Babb)
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Eastside Elementary school fourth-grader Raela Bridges (right) explains what parts of the school lunch she likes to her classmates Grace Bethany (left), Cameron Kinard (back left), and Brock Maddox (back right) on Sept. 12, 2012, in Clinton, Miss. (Associated Press)
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A large crowd of public school teachers rally at Chicago's Congress Plaza on Sept. 13, 2012, to protest against billionaire Hyatt Hotel mogul Penny Pritzker, who is also a member of the Chicago Board of Education. Protesters said that $5.2 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds being used to build a new Hyatt hotel in Hyde Park would be better spent on meeting basic student needs. (Associated Press)
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D.C. dignitaries joined city children on Thursday to cut the ribbon in front of Educare, a state-of-the-art center focusing on early childhood education in Ward 7. From left, are D.C. Housing Authority Director Adrianne Todman, council member Yvette M. Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, and Mayor Vincent C. Gray. Dorothy Douglas, leaning over the banner in the black dress, is a member of the D.C. State Board of Education for Ward 7. (Tom Howell Jr./The Washington Times)
