Students walk across a soaked playground during recess at the North Idaho STEM Charter Academy in Rathdrum, Idaho. Like many rural charters, the school has found it difficult to acquire adequate space for its growing enrollment.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and N.Y.C. Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina visit a pre-kindergarten classroom at Police Officer Ramon Suarez School in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, April 2. The school will offer full-day pre-K in the fall of 2014.