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A Omaha police officer stands with a rifle as parents wait for students of Millard South high school to be released after a school shooting Wednesday Jan. 5, 2011, in Omaha Neb. Police say 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr. opened fire Wednesday at Millard South High School, wounding the school's principal and vice principal. The vice principal died in hospital hours later. (AP photo/Chris Machian)
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Security forces stand guard outside the Millard South high school in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, where a student opened fire, wounding two adults and causing students to rush into a school kitchen to take cover before his body was found in a car about a mile away. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Millard South high school students give the V sign as they are let out of the school in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Police say a 17-year-old who opened fire in the school fatally shot himself after leaving the school. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)'
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An undated photo shows Millard South high school student Robert Butler Jr. Butler, who shot and wounded two adults, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, at the Millard South high school in Omaha, causing students to rush into a school kitchen to take cover before his body was found in a car about a mile away. The vice principal of the school later died from her injuries. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this June 3, 2008 file photo, Liberty Valley Elementary School, Danville, Pa., kindergarten student Tianna Swisher attempts to drink from the water fountain at Montour Preserve, near Washingtonville, Pa., during the school's outdoor field trip. Fluoride in drinking water, credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay, may now be too much of a good thing. It's causing spots on some kids' teeth. A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government will announce Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, it plans to lower the recommended limit for fluoride in water supplies, the first such change in nearly 50 years. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Bill Hughes, File)
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Richard Nyankori, in charge of special education in the District, says mainstreaming is a priority, vouchers also are possible. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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English teacher Richard Kinslow does not call in sick at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, R.I., but many teachers have done so since being rehired in a second-chance agreement. The entire staff was fired last year in a radical improvement effort. (Associated Press)
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Students stand around outside Central Falls High School at the end of the school day. Just 7 percent of the 840-student school's 11th-graders tested as proficient in math in 2009. (Associated Press)
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Millard Public Schools Vice Principal Vicki Kaspar, 58, left, and Principal Curtis Case, 45. The son of a police detective opened fire at the Omaha, Neb., high school Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, fatally wounding Ms. Kaspar and injuring Mr. Case. (AP Photo/Millard Public Schools)
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Randy Edsall puts on a University of Maryland hat after being introduced as the new head football coach at the school during a news conference, Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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Oklahoma's Travis Lewis (28) celebrates as head coach Bob Stoops, right, and university president David L. Boren look on after a Fiesta Bowl NCAA college football game victory against Connecticut Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz. Oklahoma defeated Connecticut 48-20. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This product image courtesy of NOTXT n' Drive shows the NOTXT n' Drive app. George Distler in Orlando, Fla., developed the BlackBerry app NOTXT n' Drive after a teacher at his daughter's high school was killed when a texting motorist crossed a median and struck her car. (AP Photo/NOTXT n' Drive ) NO SALES
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Cuba's Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso arrives at the headquarters of Cuba's National Ballet to receive the 2010 National Award of Education in Arts in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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Associated Press A student leader speaks from steps of the Harvard administration building at Cambridge, Mass., in April 1969, as part of a protest against the Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the university. More than 40 years later, will ROTC now be welcomed back at Harvard?
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Undocumented college student Jorge Herrera, 18, (center) of Carson, Calif., rallies with students and Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 25, 2010. The Dream Act would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Joseph Erb helps out students Cambria Bird (left) and Lauren Grayson in the fifth-grade class of the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla. Nearly two centuries after a Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah developed a system of symbols for each syllable spoken by the Cherokee, the tribe's written language has become available on iPhones and iPods.
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Mr. Erb demonstrates the iPhone at the Cherokee Nation Immersion School. Cherokee children are asking for iPods and iPhones for Christmas this year, and their parents are having a much tougher time saying no than one might expect.
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Wilfried Schultz, chairman of an initiative against the Koranic school in Moenchengladbach, Germany, says, "We are not going to tolerate that these Islamists undermine our liberal German values."
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In this Dec. 15, 2010, photo Mississippi State forward Renardo Sidney (1) grabs a rebound against Belhaven during an NCAA college basketball game in Jackson, Miss. Sidney has been suspended indefinitely for "conduct detrimental to the team," the latest setback for the talented but oft-troubled forward. School spokesman Gregg Ellis announced the suspension Tuesday, dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
