Education

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An adult accompanies two students into Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Thursday. Children come back to the elementary school where the entire staff has been replaced after the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. (Associated Press)

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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)

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Los Angeles Unified School District administrators, counselors and new teachers gather Feb. 8, 2012, at the Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles. Allegations of teacher lewd behavior comes as school district administrators move to replace the entire staff at the school while two teachers arrested last week are investigated. (Associated Press)

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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, says President Obama must be ousted in the next election because of government overreach, such as in higher education. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray gets a thumbs-up from D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson as he arrives to deliver the 2012 State of the District Address at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 7, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)

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Parents bring their children to school as others protest outside Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. About three dozen parents and supporters staged a protest at the school, which has been rocked by abuse allegations. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies stand outside Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks Monday at Florida State University in Tallahassee in support of the Obama administration's proposal to cap college tuition. (Associated Press)

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Teacher Nancy Henderson instructs students about fruit snacks during a lesson in healthy eating at Northeast Elementary School, in Danville, Ill. Northeast offers no junk food for sale to its students, but a new study found that almost half the nation's elementary schools do provide it. (Associated Press)

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This 2003 photo provided by Flor Cervantes shows her sister, Angelica Zuniga, then a third-grader, with former Miramontes Elementary teacher Mark Berndt at the school in Los Angeles. Angelica Zuniga, 16, now a high school junior, said Berndt, who is suspected of taking bondage-style photographs of children in his class, never asked her or others to do anything strange or to play any inappropriate games. (Associated Press)

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Boston College's Kristen Doherty, right, looks to pass under pressure from Maryland's Lynetta Kizer in the first half of an NCAA basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in College Park, Md.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)

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Vivan Perez dishes out fruit for lunch at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The Colorado General Assembly is considering the nation's toughest ban on unhealthy fats that would apply to food served in school and after school. (Associated Press)

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In this undated photo, North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, greets students at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea, on the occasion of the Chinese New Year. Compared with his father, who preceded him as president, Mr. Kim is less aloof and more outgoing. (Associated Press)

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Students are escorted to the bus Tuesday as they leave Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

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Bail for former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who has been charged in a molestation case, was raised Wednesday to $23 million. (Associated Press)

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Bernard Goldstein, professor and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, testifies Feb. 1, 2012, before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee at the Rayburn House Office Building in D.C., about the EPA's approach to ground-water research in Pavillion, Wyo. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)