The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers led the effort.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Kara Schlosser is communications director for the Council of Chief State School Officers.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

By living at home,they will spend That's half the typical cost at a four-year state school, and a fraction of a private university's Adding room and food charges and fees at renowned universities can boost the bill as high as $50,000 a year!

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

On Wednesday, Mister Obama marked his one hundredth day by speaking at a school in the state of Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The trial found high school teacher John Scopes guilty of violating a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The Woodburn High School boys soccer team has reached the state soccer championship playoffs for twenty-five straight seasons.

VOA: special.2010.11.25

Her daughter Tina was the victim of severe bullying starting in middle school in the state of Minnesota.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He teaches and leads a research laboratory at Loyola University's medical school in the state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.08.31

The state has had to make severe cuts in school spending because of deep financial problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The school was named after the Hudson River Valley in the state of New York.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

He was a top player on two state championship teams in high school in Connecticut.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

In it,a small Indiana high school makes an unlikely run for the state championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

Middle school students from every state entered the competition, sending in videotaped ideas.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

He led his high school basketball team to three state championships.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Borlaug was born in the midwestern state of Iowa in 1914 and attended the University of Minnesota agricultural school.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

He turned to jazz in high school, and later earned a music degree from North Texas State University.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

The state require sa minimum I. Q of 80 to attend public school.

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