Parting Shot — 8.25.15
Amie Thornton kisses her daughter Rylee, 7, goodbye as classes are about to start at Cottonwood Elementary School in Yakima, Wash., today. Tuesday was the first day of school of classes in the West Valley School District, the first school district district in the Yakima Valley to start class. Rylee is a second grader at the schoool. (Gordon King/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)