Education

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Illustration on the unwise course of Democrats in their attacks on President Trump by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this June 22, 2017 photo, Kathy White, an assistive technology specialist with the Janesville School District, and her dog, Nahla, sit on the porch at White's home in Delavan, Wis. Nahla is retiring from her career as a therapy dog. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

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In this Monday, June 19, 2017 photo, board members of the new Christian Academy for the Deaf, look on as chairman Lewis Lummer, right, uses sign language to discuss the potential site of the new school, in Waco, Texas. Lummer comes from four generations of deafness, and he's leading an effort to offer a Christian school experience for deaf children. (Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)

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In this May 12, 2017 photo, Herschel Johnson steps out of a former one-room schoolhouse for black students known as the Stanley Institute in Cambridge, Md. "We are so proud of it," Herschel said of the school that educated the local black community for nearly 100 years, and that is now a stop on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway that makes a big impression on visitors. "They are amazed that they can look back and see, especially children," Johnson said. "The questions that we get from children, for instance, we've had children ask us: 'Where is the gym? Where do you eat lunch?" (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)

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In this June 8, 2017 photo, high school junior Johnson Guo, center, and classmates leave New York's Joyce Theater after performing in Ballet Tech's end-of-year Kids Dance program. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this June 8, 2017 photo, ballerinas, from left, Joyce Ha, Asia Yiu, Megan Eng, and Tobi Lee perform "Pointing, " choreographed by Eliot Feld, at the Joyce Theater in New York. Feld founded Ballet Tech to provide tuition-free dance training along with academics. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this June 7, 2017 photo, Ballet Tech public school eighth grader D-Lonzo Callwood performs in "Meshugana Dance," at New York's Joyce Theater. Ballet Tech provides tuition-free dance training along with academics for students in grades 4 through 8, with about 50 fourth-graders admitted each year out of the thousands who audition. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this June 7, 2017 photo, middle school students at Ballet Tech rehearse "Meshugana Dance," the day before starting four days of performances at the Joyce Theater in New York. The school is a full-service Public School for Dance in grades 4 through 8, with about 50 fourth-graders admitted each year out of the thousands who audition. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this Thursday, June 8, 2017 photo, high school students at Ballet Tech rehearse "The Jig Is Up," at the Joyce Theater in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this June 8, 2017 photo, Eliot Feld, left, the co-founder and artistic director of the Ballet Tech public school, offers a critique to students rehearsing his piece, "The Jig Is Up," at the Joyce Theater in New York. Feld founded Ballet Tech to provide tuition-free dance training along with academics. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this May 25, 2017 photo, Ballet Tech's Megan Eng, second from right, and sophomore classmates listen to instruction during class in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this May 25, 2017 photo, Ballet Tech high school student Johnson Guo, center, participates in a ballet class in New York. Ballet Tech provides tuition-free dance training along with academics for students in grades 4 through 8, with about 50 fourth-graders admitted each year out of the thousands who audition. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this Thursday, June 8, 2017 photo, high school students at Ballet Tech, New York City's Public School for Dance, perform "The Jig Is Up" at the Joyce Theater. The piece was choreographed by Eliot Feld, who founded Ballet Tech to provide tuition-free dance training along with academics. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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FILE- In this June 22, 2017, file photo, Carl Paladino, right, walks with his lawyers outside the state Department of Education building after the first day of testimony before Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who will decide if Paladino should be removed from his position on the Buffalo Board of Education in Albany, N.Y. Paladino’s accused of disclosing information about teacher contract negotiations discussed in closed-door sessions. The hearing’s expected to conclude Wednesday, June 28. (AP Photo/Mary Esch, File)

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This Dec. 9, 2007 photo released by Yale University shows J.D. McClatchy, a longtime editor of The Yale Review, one of the world's oldest literary publications, in New Haven, Conn. McClatchy, a prize winning poet and librettist, said he is leaving The Yale Review, effective at the end of this month. (Yale University via AP)

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In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017, photo, Hannah Waring, left, a student at Loudoun Valley High School, and Abby McDonough, a student at Liberty University, work in the strawberry stand at Wegmeyer Farms in Hamilton, Va. Waring and McDonough are working at Wegmeyer Farms for the summer. Summer jobs are vanishing as U.S. teens spend more time in school and face competition from older workers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)

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This undated photo provided by The University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)