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A group of University of Maryland students gather Tuesday to discuss supporting a bill that would allow many illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition in Maryland. The university's student government and president already endorse the bill, which supporters say would help the state economy by creating a better-prepared work force. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray shakes hands Monday night with audience members after delivering his maiden State of the District address to a full house at Eastern High School in Northeast Washington.
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President Barack Obama points to his earpiece, as he explains to the audience, that he is receiving translations during his town hall with students, parents and teachers at Bell Multicultural High School, in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A student is wheeled to a waiting Lifeline helicopter Friday, March 25, 2011, at West Middle School in Martinsville, Ind. A person was shot Friday at the middle school in south-central Indiana and a suspect is in custody, state police said. (AP Photo/Mooresville-Decatur Times, Keith Rhoades)
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Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers shoots as Maryland's Alicia DeVaugh (right) and Alyssa Thomas defend in an NCAA women's college basketball tournament game Tuesday in College Park, Md. Georgetown won and next faces top seed Connecticut. (Associated Press)
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Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers steals the ball from Maryland's Alyssa Thomas during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers steals the ball from Maryland's Alyssa Thomas during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Butler University basketball coach Brad Stevens answers questions about his team in Indianapolis on Monday, March 21, 2011. Butler is scheduled to play Wisconsin on Thursday in the NCAA college basketball tournament Southeast regional in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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A plea to keep Bruce Pearl as coach of the Tennessee men's basketball team is painted on a rock on school's campus Sunday, March 20, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn. The NCAA has charged Pearl with unethical conduct and other recruiting violations after he revealed he lied during an investigation into recruiting. The rock is regularly painted with messages by students. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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DePaul head coach Doug Bruno talks to his team during a break in the second half in the first round of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 19, 2011 in State College, Pa. DePaul defeated Navy 66-43. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Rina Hirano (left), a Japanese Embassy worker, and Ian Rinehart, a George Washington University graduate student, write messages of support on Japanese flags at the fundraiser Sunday at Cafe Asia in Arlington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Raymond Clark III pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le. (Connecticut Department of Correction via Associated Press)
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Raymond Clark III (right), a former animal research technician at Yale University, pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 17, 2011, to the murder and sexual assault of Yale graduate student Annie Le (left) in 2009. (AP Photo)
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Isma'il Clayton, 13, and his father Kyle talk about Isma'il's experiences being bullied by his classmates because of his Asperger's Syndrome during a Congressional briefing on Bullying of Children with Special Needs Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Mr. Clayton is demanding a zero-tolerance policy on bullying in schools. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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President Obama walks off after signing his name during a visit to a music classroom at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., on Monday. The students had done a presentation on jazz legend Duke Ellington. Mr. Obama called for more education spending. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama speaks March 14, 2011, about revising the No Child Left Behind education law during an address at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)
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In this Feb. 27, 2011 photo, Philadelphia Eagles kicker David Akers, left, is seen with TobyMac at the Cherokee High School Performing Arts Center in Marlton, NJ. (AP Photo/Tom Cunningham) NO SALES
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Libyan students shout slogans during a pro-Gadhafi rally in the parking lot of the Rixos Hotel, where the foreign press is staying, in Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Teachers brought the students from neighborhood schools to demonstrate. The signs read, "God, Moammar and Libya." (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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George Mason players cheers teammates during Game 9 against VCI in the NCAA college Colonial Athletic Association college basketball tournament in Richmond, Va., Sunday, March 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Scott K. Brown)
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George Mason players cheers teammates during Game 9 against VCI in the NCAA college Colonial Athletic Association college basketball tournament in Richmond, Va., Sunday, March 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Scott K. Brown)
