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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has a 51 percent approval rating, according to a Marquette University Law School poll, as he faces a recall effort. (Associated Press)
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Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos is driving the Greyhounds toward just their second 20-win season in school history. Backed by the 3-point shooting of Robert Olson (below), Loyola is 14-5, 7-2 in the Metro Atlantic. (Loyola University)
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Tom Luna, the state superintendent for Idaho, had his truck vandalized after the state's Legislature ended "continuing contracts" for new teachers and said performance, not seniority, would determine layoffs. Many states are moving to weaken tenure rights for teachers. (Associated Press)
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Penn State fan Maria Meyer attaches a set of rosary beads to a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2009 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno shouts before an NCAA college football game against Temple in State College, Pa. On Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, Paterno, thewinningest coach in major college football, has died. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks Jan. 19, 2012, at Galena High School in Reno, Nev. (Associated Press)
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Pre-kindergarten teacher Laura Amling helps her 3-year-old students with a project at Powell Elementary School in Washington on Dec. 6, 2011. The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shrinking budgets. As a result, many 3- and 4-year-olds aren't going to preschool. (Associated Press)
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The Anacostia Senior High School Junior ROTC students march in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast Washington, D.C. on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. This is the first time in eight years that the parade has been held, and more than 200 groups signed up to march. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Sidney High School math teacher Sherry Arnold, 43, seen here in an undated photo, has been missing since Jan. 7, 2012. New details about her mysterious disappearance and reported death emerged Jan. 15, 2012, as authorities asked property owners in parts of North Dakota and Montana to look for signs of her buried body and released the names of two men being held in the case. (Associated Press/Sidney Montana Police Dept.)
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President Obama participates Jan. 16, 2012, in a community service project in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Browne Education Campus in Washington. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Three young girls walk past the Med Stop marijuana dispensary in Denver, located across from Del Pueblo Elementary School, on Jan. 12, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Pyone Cho (center), an activist of the 88 Generation Students Group, joins his parents upon his arrival at Yangon airport after released from a prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar freed some of its most famous political inmates Friday, sparking jubilation outside prison gates while signaling its readiness to meet Western demands for lifting economic sanctions. (Associated Press)
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"I need you to work at learning as much as you can," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley tells grade-schoolers at the new Germantown Elementary School in Annapolis. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley climbs a “rock wall” at the new Germantown Elementary School in Annapolis on Tuesday alongside kindergartner Jack Irvin, 5. Mr. O'Malley went to the school to call on the General Assembly to increase spending on school construction. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Chancellor Kaya Henderson said scorecards for the District's traditional public schools build on the "profiles" released last year and serve as a likely precursor to an accountability ranking or rating. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Rep. Ron Paul campaigns outside a polling station at Webster School in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announces his education agenda Monday for the legislature at the Capitol in Richmond as (from left) Luca Rickey, Zane Childress and Caroline Saady listen. His No. 1 push will be to repeal the so-called Kings Dominion law that says schools cannot open until after Labor Day. (Associated Press)
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Stephen Hawking, in his office at England's Cambridge University last month, in this 2012 file photo. (The Science Museum via Associated Press)
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With two days before the nation's first presidential primary, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney responds to a man in crowd after sharing the stage and spotlight with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during a rally at Exeter High School in Exeter, NH, Sunday, January 8, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Family members of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney join him on stage during a rally at Exeter High School. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
