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President Obama outlines the need for immigration policy overhaul during a speech at the American University School of International Service in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama outlines the need for immigration policy overhaul during a speech at the American University School of International Service in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website "Odnoklassniki," or Classmates, shows a woman who journalists have identified as Anna Chapman. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo)

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Profits from sales of an "extremely limited edition" George Washington rye whiskey will benefit Mount Vernon's education programs. Photo by Russ Flint/Special to The Washington Times

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Texas State Guard Dennis McLane of Sugarland talks to an unidentified child at the Edcouch Elsa High School on Wednesday afternoon, June 30, 2010 in Elsa, Texas. The school was being used as a shelter for residents fleeing Hurricane Alex. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)

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First lady Michelle Obama jumps rope Wednesday with students in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" initiative aims to increase awareness and decrease the rate of obesity. (Associated Press)

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Anne, a child with Down syndrome, draws during a meeting in Paris on April 11, 2001, of the Collective Against Handiphobia, a French advocacy and support group for parents of children born with birth defects. AP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG

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First lady Michelle Obama uses a jump- rope during exercise activities at an event highlighting the work of the Physical Fitness Council on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at the Columbia Heights Education Campus Bell Multicultural High School in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said she has some concerns about the D.C. Healthy Schools Act, among them the fact that some schools do not have cafeterias or kitchens. (The Washington Times)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left) and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner listen as the president speaks at the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) theater. (Associated Press)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 17, 2010, during a protest against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Jerusalem police said about 100,000 people converged in the city center to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo / Oded Balilty)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schoolgirls stand on rooftops in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 17, 2010, to watch a mass demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Jerusalem police said about 100,000 people converged in in the city's center to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men escort parents (center) who oppose the integration of a religious girls school as they make their way to police headquarters in Jerusalem, where they are to be arrested on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Israel's Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the school must be integrated and ordered the dozens of parents, who have defied the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school, to be jailed for two weeks, a decision that brought mass demonstrations by the ultra-Orthodox community. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem watch, through the windows of a building under construction, a mass demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Police said about 100,000 people converged in downtown Jerusalem to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Jewish girls look out the window of the Beit Yakov School in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Emanuel, near Nablus, on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have called mass demonstrations Thursday to protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of the religious girls school. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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High school students have been investigated over "sexting" scandals.

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Students head back to school Tuesday morning, May 5, 2009, at Rocori Middle School in Cold Spring, Minn., after the school closed last week due to a case of the swine flu. It was the state's only confirmed swine flu case so far. Orono High School will remain closed for another day, as will Emerson Spanish Immersion School in Minneapolis, where suspected cases have been reported. State health officials are backing away from earlier recommendations to shut down schools where suspected cases have been reported. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson)