Hayden Loflin sifts through new books during library time at Crest Hill Elementary School on Friday morning in Casper. School librarians were told to wait until this year to order new books after the school district's new library database system became corrupt while transferring old file last year. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Amber Street reads from a book as friend Tina Parkhurst looks on during library time for 6th-graders at Crest Hill Elementary School on Friday morning in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Gethchine Dhaiti , 9, a fourth grader at Hope-Centennial Elementary School in West Palm Beach, Fla, cheers as President Barack Obama takes the stage Tuesday morning Aug. 8, 2009, during his national address. Children at Hope-Centennial Elementary and around Palm Beach County tuned in to see the President's remarks on education.(AP photo by Brandon Kruse/The Palm Beach Post.)
Kelly Walsh tennis coach Dwight Ballard watches several of his players in different matches while they play Sheridan at the Casper Country Club on Tuesday afternoon. The Natrona County school board approved funding on Monday night to design an activity complex at Kelly Walsh High School, which would include tennis courts, soccer fields and track and field facilities. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Alex Mora, center, walks with friend Izzi Rash down the main hall of Kelly Walsh High School Wednesday afternoon. Kelly Walsh has changed its dress code policy to allow students to wear hats at school, in part because the school improved its graduation rate for the last two years. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
Students of Frontier Middle School gather outside to watch a model rocket launch as part of a kick-off for the reading program 'One School, One Book' on Monday morning in Casper. Students and faculty will each read their own copy of the same book, 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins, during the first quarter of the academic year. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Students of Frontier Middle School are handed their own copy of 'The Hunger Games' during an assembly launching the 'One School, One Book' reading program on Monday morning in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
A Kelly Walsh astronomy student's picture of the Andromeda Nebula is posted on a display at the Casper Planetarium with other students' pictures. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Jorden Pohl, a first-grader at Slade Elementary School in Laramie, works on structuring the number 10 while meeting with her math group earlier this month. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
From right, Hong Kong martial art actors Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Ting, Yuan De, Yuan Wah and Yuan Bin attend the 50th anniversary dinner for their alma mater, the Hong Kong-China Opera Institute in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Str)
From right, Hong Kong martial art actors Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Ting, Yuan De, Yuan Wah and Yuan Bin attend the 50th anniversary dinner for their alma mater, the Hong Kong-China Opera Institute in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Str)
From right, Hong Kong martial art actors Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Ting, Yuan De, Yuan Wah and Yuan Bin attend the 50th anniversary dinner for their alma mater, the Hong Kong-China Opera Institute in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Str)
From right, Hong Kong martial art actors Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Ting, Yuan De, Yuan Wah and Yuan Bin attend the 50th anniversary dinner for their alma mater, the Hong Kong-China Opera Institute in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Str)
Natrona County students are dropped off in north Casper at Glenarm and H streets Monday afternoon. The safety of students in Casper and across Wyoming is jeopardized by motorists who don't slow down for stopped school buses, officials say. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
Area preschool children and students from Star Lane Center carry signs across Center St. in downtown Casper on Tuesday morning during the second annual Step Up for Kids Day rally. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Sidney Brattis, 4, paints signs with her classmates from the Child Development Center during the annual Step Up for Kids rally across the street from the Natrona County Courthouse on Tuesday morning in Casper. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Josephine Davison, 4, reads with other children during the reopening ceremony of Casper Even Start at the Lifesteps Campus on Thursday afternoon. Toni Davison, Josephine's mother, is thinking about attending the program. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
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