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President Barack Obama, followed by teachers and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to urge the House to pass legislation that could help keep 160,000 educators on the job. From left are: Shannon Lewis, of Romney, W. Va., who was a special education instructor who lost her job in June when her position was cut due to lack of funding, Duncan, and Rachel Martin who taught kindergarten in Richton Park, Ill. until she was laid off in March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by teachers, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to urge the House to pass legislation that could help keep 160,000 educators on the job. From left are: Shannon Lewis, of Romney, W. Va., who was a special education instructor who lost her job in June when her position was cut due to lack of funding, Duncan, the president, and Rachel Martin who taught kindergarten in Richton Park, Ill. until she was laid off in March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on teachers jobs and House bill H.R. 1586 Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on August 10, 2010. Obama was joined by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. UPI/Kevin Detsch

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President Barack Obama speaks about teacher jobs, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Educator Rachel Martin is in the foreground. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Obama, followed by (from left) Education Secretary Arne Duncan and educators Rachel Martin and Shannon Lewis, walks to the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Dave Ebersbach at his home Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, in Bowling Green, Ohio. Ebersbach, 43, is one of 14 math teachers in the Toledo, Ohio, school district to receive notice a few weeks ago that their jobs were cut. Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)

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Coolidge high school head football head coach Natalie Randolph, left, works with her team at football practice, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Students walk by burning debris set afire in protest of the Haitian government's lack of help to rebuild the area after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Education is one of the areas Haitian candidate for president Wyclef Jean hopes to improve. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Abortion (after Da Vinci)

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President Barack Obama reads to students at Long Branch Elementary School in Arlington, Va., Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Minnesota Viking quarterback Brett Favre passes to an Oak Grove High School football player during practice in Hattiesburg, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Associated Press Emergency workers respond to an accident involving two school buses, a tractor trailer and a pickup truck Thursday on I-44 near Gray Summit, Mo. The school buses, carrying high school students, couldn't avoid a wreck of the trucks that had occurred in front of them.