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"Culture — what you believe, what you value, how you live — matters," Mitt Romney told graduates gathered in the football stadium at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., on Saturday. The former Massachusetts governor, a Mormon who has struggled to connect with evangelical Christians, drew sustained applause when he said unequivocally: "Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman." (Associated Press)

Pay for Pray: Ex-Navy chaplain to pay graduation speakers for offering a prayer

By Mary Lou Byrd - The Washington Free Beacon

Connecticut State Police are on scene following the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles northeast of New York, on Dec. 14, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Newtown education board: More police, please

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has proposed giving public schools a letter grade, a move that is seen as essential to generating parental and community support for improving schools. (Associated Press)

Va. Senate panel OKs grading schools

By Larry O’Dell - Associated Press

School namesake: Vicious bandido or defender of community?

By Gosia Wozniacka - Associated Press

Illustration Islamist Roots in American Schools by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Secretive Islamist roots of American schools

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times

Thousands of teachers rally for the second consecutive day outside the Chicago Board of Education headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Chicago. Teachers walked off the job Monday for the first time in 25 years over issues that include pay raises, classroom conditions, job security and teacher evaluations. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

Chicago teachers’ strike grinds into third day

By Don Babwin - Associated Press

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Taking a chisel to the Ten Commandments

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

Father of suicide victim seeks change in Va. school policy

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Ten Commandments dispute in Va. headed to federal court

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Va. superintendents’ group proposes K-12 plan

By Zinie Chen Sampson - Associated Press

Alice Moore

KNIGHT: Culture-war heroine gets her due

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

Kitty Boitnott, president of the Virginia Education Association, says some teachers across the state have gone three years without a raise. (Associated Press)

Virginia teachers union presses for K-12 ‘funding priority’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Montgomery County OKs first charter school

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

Montgomery County approves first charter school

By Joseph Weber - The Washington Times

First charter school eyed for Montgomery County

By David Hill - The Washington Times

Parents see political slant in 3rd-grade text

By David Hill - The Washington Times

Flavored milk no longer a choice in LA schools

By CHRISTINA HOAG - Associated Press

LA school district votes to ban flavored milk

By CHRISTINA HOAG - Associated Press

Charlton Heston as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"

EDITORIAL: No room for the Ten Commandments

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

**FILE** D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (Associated Press)

3 special elections loom in D.C.

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times