(NewsUSA) - Due to increased concerns about student safety and keeping grades high, more public schools are turning not to additional security or stricter punishments for intolerable behavior -; but to school uniforms.No longer limited to private schools, the number of public schools adopting uniform use has risen exponentially since the year 2000. According to the National Association of Elementary School Principals, one in every five public schools in the United States has taken to

With hitmaker Irv Gotti at the helm, Ashanti blasted into the urban music scene in 2002, topping the charts with multiple singles at once. She quickly became a sensation, gracing the covers of magazines and dominating urban radio. Ashanti built her reputation with duets, where she would complement an already popular rapper -- Ja Rule ("Always on Time"), Fat Joe ("What's Luv?"), the Notorious B.I.G. ("Unfoolish") -- contrasting the tough-guy male perspective with her own.