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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as Ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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Musician and actor Common and his mother Dr. Mahalia Hines visit the Renaissance School of the Arts as Ambassadors for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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A statue of Jesus was vandalized on the campus of Carlow University, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Thursday July 20, 2017. Officials at Carlow University are investigating who might have broken off the hands of the statue of Jesus on their Oakland campus. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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A statue of Jesus was vandalized on the campus of Carlow University, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Thursday July 20, 2017. Officials at Carlow University are investigating who might have broken off the hands of the statue of Jesus on their Oakland campus. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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A statue of Jesus was vandalized on the campus of Carlow University, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Thursday July 20, 2017. Officials at Carlow University are investigating who might have broken off the hands of the statue of Jesus on their Oakland campus. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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A vandelized statue of Jesus on the campus of Carlow University, a private Catholic university, is shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Pittsburgh. School officials announced the vandalism on Wednesday, but said it was unclear exactly when it occurred. Authorities are hoping surveillance video identifies whoever broke the hands off a granite statue. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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A vandelized statue of Jesus on the campus of Carlow University, a private Catholic university, is shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Pittsburgh. School officials announced the vandalism on Wednesday, but said it was unclear exactly when it occurred. Authorities are hoping surveillance video identifies whoever broke the hands off a granite statue. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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A vandelized statue of Jesus on the campus of Carlow University, a private Catholic university, is shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Pittsburgh. School officials announced the vandalism on Wednesday, but said it was unclear exactly when it occurred. Authorities are hoping surveillance video identifies whoever broke the hands off a granite statue. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this June 25, 2017, file photo, Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Smith told SiriusXM radio in an interview Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that she was a drug dealer when she first met Tupac Shakur in high school in Baltimore in the late 1980s. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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In this Tuesday, July 18, 2017 photo, Hector Daniel (also known as Daniel or Danny) Garnica's drama teacher Berta Cortes holds costume elephant ears her students wore in Black Mountain Elementary School's production of "The Jungle Book" in Flagstaff, Ariz. Daniel, who played the elephant leader, was killed, along with his siblings, parents and several members of his extended family, in a flash flood in a rocky canyon north of Phoenix while celebrating his mother's birthday on Saturday, July 15. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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This June 27, 2017, photo shows the exterior of South Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Arconic says 20,000 square feet of Reynobond®ACM PE core was used for the metallic facade to differentiate the building entrances and science classrooms at the high school built in 2004. In sales brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the “stunning visual effect” its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan school and a 33-story hotel on Baltimore’s waterfront. Those same panels also were used in London’s Grenfell Tower. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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This June 27, 2017, photo shows the exterior of South Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Arconic says 20,000 square feet of Reynobond ®ACM PE core was used for the metallic facade to differentiate the building entrances and science classrooms at the high school built in 2004. In sales brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the “stunning visual effect” its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan school and a 33-story hotel on Baltimore’s waterfront. Those same panels _ Reynobond composite material with a polyethylene core _ also were used in the Grenfell Tower apartment building in London. Those same panels also were used in London’s Grenfell Tower. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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FILE - In this Nov. 19. 2014 file photo Yvette Felarca, an alumni of the University of California Berkeley and member of the group By Any Means Necessary, claps and yells as a vote is taken to raise tuition during a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents in San Francisco. The Sacramento County District Attorney's office said Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that Felarca was arrested Tuesday on charges of assault and inciting and participating in a riot stemming from a brawl during a protest at the state Capitol last year. Yvette Felarca is the name used by a leader of the group By Any Means Necessary, but public records show her given name is Yvonne Capistrano Felarca. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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John Gose, walks into court at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The former high school chemistry teacher convicted of cooking methamphetamines in New Mexico like the fictional Walter White character in the AMC-TV show "Breaking Bad" could see prison. (Josh Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)
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John Gose listens during his sentencing hearing at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The former high school chemistry teacher convicted of cooking methamphetamines in New Mexico like the fictional Walter White character in the AMC-TV show "Breaking Bad" could see prison. (Josh Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)
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John Gose is escorted out of court at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The former high school chemistry teacher convicted of cooking methamphetamines in New Mexico like the fictional Walter White character in the AMC-TV show "Breaking Bad" could see prison. (Josh Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito, the dean of the University of Southern California medical school, arrives at the Changing Lives And Creating Cures Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. USC President C.L. Max Nikias says officials will "examine and address" a newspaper report that the Puliafito, who recently resigned as dean of the medical school, abused drugs and associated with criminals. (Photo by Tonya Wise/Invision/AP, File)
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Students from Team Israel dance in the hallway next to other teams including students from Iraq during the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Washington. The challenge is an international robotics event with teams from over 100 countries. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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FILE - In this May 15, 2012 file photo, Ritter Elementary School elementary students practice their math skills in Los Angeles. A recent federal court ruling ordering the release of personal data on more than 10 million California students highlights the growing amount of information schools now collect, and the loopholes that allow it to be released. The order involves a lawsuit filed in 2011 in which plaintiffs are requesting data kept by the California Department of Education to determine whether the state is fulfilling its federal obligations for disabled students. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
