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A $3.5 Billion Plan to Help the U.S.'s Worst Schools

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Dec. 4, 2009
With $3.5 billion in new funds, Education Secretary Arne Duncan hopes to "turn around" America's lowest-performing schools
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic