Zuckerberg based his newly-public stance on personal experience with the middle-school entrepreneurship after-school class he started teaching earlier this year.

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He began offering an after-school guitar class to interested students and the program expanded.

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He got the idea from the kids he was teaching at an after-school music class in one of the tougher neighborhoods of north Philadelphia.

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She said many students can easily achieve that goal through recess activities, gym class and after-school sports.

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Ms. Lam, 40, and Mr. Bourne, 41, both from a town near Boston, met in a high-school Latin class and got married after she graduated from Wellesley College in 1993.

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Dan and Tammy grew up in working-class families in the South and were married shortly after high school.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have said the resulting funding loss would mean the elimination of 700 guidance counselor and teacher positions, bigger class sizes and cuts in pre-kindergarten special education, after-school and anti-bullying programs, according to court documents.

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Raised middle-class in Montgomery, Watkins attended the University of Alabama law school after receiving an NAACP scholarship.

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He describes himself in an autobiography as a hot-and-cold student in high school, doing well when he studied but suffering plummeting grades after he skipped class to smoke and drink with friends.

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