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Flags fly at half-staff in front of the town hall in Chardon, Ohio, on Monday for the victims of a school shooting. At the school, teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear.
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Silvia Mancia, grandmother of Joanna Ramos, 10, (inset left) an elementary school student who died on Friday after a fight with another student, arrives at a makeshift memorial at the Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, Calif., on Monday. (Associated Press)
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Tiffany Adams, an 11th-grader at Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., recites her poem at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday during the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's poetry slam competition. She was the runner-up in the contest that commemorated Black History Month. The competition included 14 local high school students. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Doug Gasper, a ninth-grader at Chardon High School, is hugged Feb. 27, 2012, by his mother, Sandy, as they leave Maple Elementary School in Chardon, Ohio. Students assembled at Maple Elementary School after a gunman opened fire inside the high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day, wounding four students, officials said. (Associated Press)
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A photo of Joanna Ramos with a note memorializes the 10-year-old girl outside Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Students leave with their parents from Maple Elementary School after a shooting at Chardon High School on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, in Chardon, Ohio. A suspect is in custody. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 23, 2012, to students at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 23, 2012, to students at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. (Associated Press)
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Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in Washington are (from left) Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.; the Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; C. Ben Mitchell, Graves professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.; Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center of Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University in New York; and Craig Mitchell, associate professor of ethics of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Students hold hands as they are led along a walkway at Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, Wash., following the shooting of an 8-year-old female student there on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is using money from a settlement with mortgage lenders to avoid huge budget cuts for public colleges and universities.
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Ahmad, 12, (left) and Zainab Bannout, 9, each have their own Arabic workbook, and after they finish their lesson, they read the Koran as part of their home-schooling in Montgomery County. They are home-schooled by their mother, who has a master's degree in education psychology,
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A child reads from the Koran at his home. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSICA CARPENTER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES SCHOOL DAYS: Sarah Yazback reads a book to her son Musa Bannout, 3, while her daughter Zainab Bannout, 9, reads on her own in the family's Germantown home. Ms. Yazback said she allows the children to choose what to read and what to learn, and they spend all day with activities and lessons that help stimulate their brains.
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Ahmad Bannout, 12, reads from the Koran at his home. His mother says her children read for memorization after practicing in their Arabic workbooks. (Jessica Carpenter/The Washington Times)
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Ahmad, 12, (left) and Zainab Bannout, 9, each have their own Arabic workbook, and after they finish their lesson, they read the Koran as part of their home-schooling in Montgomery County. They are home-schooled by their mother, who has a master's degree in education psychology. (Jessica Carpenter/The Washington Times)
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Mark Berndt (right), a former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School, looks to his attorney, Victor Acevedo, during his arraignment in Los Angeles Municipal Court on Tuesday. Mr. Berndt, 61, pleaded not guilty to lewd acts charges. (Associated Press)
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Antonya Huntenburg, 21, of Hillsborough, N.J., a student at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, says everyone she knows is under some kind of economic pressure, including her parents. She says she joined the Occupy D.C. encampment on McPherson Square "to be safe." (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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**FILE** A person walks Feb. 15, 2012, on the University at Buffalo campus in Buffalo, N.Y. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul speaks Feb. 19, 2012, at Williston High School in Williston, N.D. His appearance was organized by the North Dakota Policy Council. (Associated Press/Williston Herald)
