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Facts, figures as students return to the classroom

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Published September 2, 2013 8:04am ET
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Facts, figures as students return to the classroom
FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2013 file photo safety guard Renee Green high-fives Demari Hill, 5, as she heads to Gresham Elementary School with her parents Destiny and Anthony Hill on her first day of kindergarten classes in Chicago. The National Center for Education Statistics estimated that in 2013, 50.1 million children will be enrolled in U.S. public schools and 5.2 million will be in private school. That doesn’t include home-schooled students, an estimated 1.5 million in 2007, which home-school advocates say are higher now. As for teachers there are about 3.3 million elementary and secondary public teachers in 2013, leading to a student teacher ratio of 15-to-1, NCES said. (AP Photos/M. Spencer Green, File) | M. Spencer Green

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools and classrooms are spiffed up — maybe.

New textbooks have been ordered — perhaps.

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