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May 21, 2012 | | A+ Despite shrunken state coffers, the quality of public schools is improving across many measures. See Newsweek’s exclusive ranking of the 1,000 best. Did yours make the list? SUMMIT World leaders at a NATO summit in Chicago will enter their second day of talks Monday, with an end to the war in Afghanistan first on the agenda. While the United States has endorsed a graduated withdrawal of troops to be complete around 2014, new French President François Hollande said France’s soldiers will leave by the end of 2012, calling it “a question of French sovereignty.” Fifty leaders from the 28 NATO countries are attending the summit, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. Protests continued in the city outside the talks, including one in which dozens of post–Sept. 11 U.S. military veterans discarded service medals, calling them “representations of hate” and “cheap tokens.” WELCOME The latest developments in cosmology point toward the possibility that our universe is merely one of billions. In Newsweek, best-selling physicist Brian Greene on the findings. CAMPAIGN TRAILS Priorities USA Action, the largest pro-Obama super PAC, is trailing GOP political action committees as the two sides prepare for the first general election in which they are likely to play a major role. Priorities USA Action raised $1.6 million in April, $3 million less than what Restore Our Future, a PAC that supports presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, drew in over the same period. Donations for Obama’s super PAC came mostly from organized labor, and some of that money came in only on the last day of the filing period, according to federal records. Priorities USA Action laid out $1.9 million in expenditures last month, with most of it going to ads attacking the Romney campaign. TRIAL Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, found guilty on counts including bias intimidation and witness tampering after the suicide of Tyler Clementi in 2010, will be sentenced Monday in a New Jersey court. The death of 18-year-old Clementi became a national issue, sparking conversation about bullying and whether Ravi intentionally humiliated Clementi for his homosexuality. Ravi, a native of India, was studying at New Jersey’s Rutgers University at the time of the suicide, and he may face deportation as part of his sentence. During the trial, prosecutor Julia L. McClure told jurors that Ravi’s acts were “purposeful, they were intentional, and they were planned,” and that Ravi was “bothered by Tyler Clementi’s sexual orientation.” | | 
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