Education

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Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, holds up a copy of a lawsuit filed on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public elementary schools during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2010, file photo, the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux logo hangs on Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D. The university has unveiled part of a new $3 million branding initiative meant to strike a balance between academics and athletics and help the school move past the nickname controversy that has lingered for many years. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)

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In this Sunday, June 11, 2017 photo, United Steel Workers local 1999 union president Chuck Jones, right, is hugged by Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., during his retirement party in the union hall in Indianapolis. Jones became a steel worker straight out of high school in 1969 during a high tide of the U.S. labor movement that helped propel a generation of blue-collar workers into the middle class. He said his retirement at the beginning of June was “bittersweet” after decades of declining fortunes for working people. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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In this June 11, 2017 photo, United Steel Workers local 1999 union president Chuck Jones takes a selfie with union member Mike Hensley of Gosport, Ind., during his retirement party in the union hall in Indianapolis. Jones became a steel worker straight out of high school in 1969 during a high tide of the U.S. labor movement that helped propel a generation of blue-collar workers into the middle class. He said his retirement at the beginning of June was “bittersweet” after decades of declining fortunes for working people. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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In this June 22, 2017 photo, Conner Crowder, who has weathered a lifetime of family challenges to graduate from North Thurston High School, speaks at Sylvester Park in Olympia, Wash. Crowder was one of 156 unaccompanied youth in the nearly 14,500-student school district last year. They’re considered homeless by federal guidelines, and are eligible for extra support. He graduated with a 3.4 grade point average, and nearly $20,000 in college scholarships and awards in hand. (Steve Bloom/The Olympian via AP)

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In this June 22, 2017 photo, Conner Crowder, who has weathered a lifetime of family challenges to graduate from North Thurston High School, poses at Sylvester Park in Olympia, Wash. Crowder was one of 156 unaccompanied youth in the nearly 14,500-student school district last year. They’re considered homeless by federal guidelines, and are eligible for extra support. He graduated with a 3.4 grade point average, and nearly $20,000 in college scholarships and awards in hand. (Steve Bloom/The Olympian via AP)

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In this May 24, 2017 photo, the roof was blown off gymnasium at Courtney Elementary School and the end walls were blown in by a tornado that passed through the area in Courtney, N.C. Beyond an architectural treasure, the gym was something of a community hub for Courtney, a place that was open to locals outside of school hours for birthday parties and recreation-league sports. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)

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In this May 24, 2017 photo, the roof was blown off gymnasium at Courtney Elementary School and the end walls were blown in by a tornado that passed through the area in Courtney, N.C. Beyond an architectural treasure, the gym was something of a community hub for Courtney, a place that was open to locals outside of school hours for birthday parties and recreation-league sports. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1993 file photo, University of North Carolina Chancellor Paul Hardin III, right, stands with President Bill Clinton as he goes over a book of essays at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C., before taking part in the opening ceremonies of the school's bicentennial observance. Hardin, who led the school into its third century while increasing faculty diversity, died on Saturday, July 1, 2017. He was 86. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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This photo taken June 19, 2017, shows Woodinville High School graduate Esteban Underwood being greeted by Tulalip Police's Jeff Jira along with many other law enforcement officers from various departments at his school's graduation ceremony at Xfinity Arena on Monday, June 19, 20017 in Everett, Wash. Underwood's father, a Des Moines police officer, was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2001. (Ian Terry/The Herald via AP)

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West Goshen Police Chief Joseph Gleason speaks to the media during a news conference outside police headquarters, Friday, June 30, 2017, in West Goshen, Pa. A man driving down a Pennsylvania highway shot recent high school graduate Bianca Roberson, 18, in the head, killing her, as the two tried to merge into a single lane, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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West Goshen Police Chief Joseph Gleason speaks to the media during a news conference outside police headquarters, Friday, June 30, 2017, in West Goshen, Pa. A man driving down a Pennsylvania highway shot recent high school graduate Bianca Roberson, 18, in the head, killing her, as the two tried to merge into a single lane, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Russia unveiled a high-tech combat suit prototype at its National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) in Moscow, June 29, 2017. (YouTube, RT)

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FILE - In this May 16, 2016, file pool photo Owen Labrie is escorted out of the Merrimack County Superior Courtroom in Concord, N.H., after a judge agreed to new bail conditions. Labrie, a prep school graduate, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl as part of a game of sexual conquest called Senior Salute. Labrie was cleared of felony rape but convicted of misdemeanor sex offenses. The Concord Monitor reported Friday, June 30, 2017, that boys in a St. Paul's School dorm apparently competed to have their names put on a crown. The school said Friday that it's investigating "improper behavior" by students, but it didn't elaborate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, Pool, File

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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, shows the entrance to St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. New Hampshire police say they've learned of a new game of sexual conquest at the elite prep school where a student was charged in 2014 over a game called the "Senior Salute." The Concord Monitor reported Friday, June 30, 2017, that boys in a St. Paul's School dorm apparently competed to have their names put on a crown. The school said Friday that it's investigating "improper behavior" by students, but it didn't elaborate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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Fangqin Wan, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, walks for Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar who went missing three weeks ago, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Urbana, Ill. Illinois students and others from the wider community are gathering at the Urbana-Champaign campus to show support for the Chinese scholar who disappeared three weeks ago. (Holly Hart/The News-Gazette via AP)

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In this Friday, June 23, 2017 photo, junior high school student Gavin Norman explains his technique he invented to put out a fire with dry ice at his home in Stansbury Park, Utah. Norman was a state level winner in a national science contest. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP)

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Republican Sens. John Braun and Ann Rivers talk to the media about the agreement reached on an education funding plan, Thursday, June 29, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers say their budget compromise satisfies a state Supreme Court ruling that says the state must spend more money on schools. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Democratic Sen. Christine Rolfes and Sen. Kevin Ranker talk to the media about the agreement reached on education funding, Thursday, June 29, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers say their budget compromise satisfies a state Supreme Court ruling that says the state must spend more money on schools. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)