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In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, Cafeteria worker Paula Herrera, left, supervises as second grade student Dylan Casias punches in his student identification number to deduct a meal payment at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe, N.M. All students are offered the same lunch at Gonzales and other Santa Fe public schools to avoid any chance of embarrassing students whose parents may have fallen behind on meal payments. New Mexico in April became the first state to outlaw the shaming of children for any unpaid meals. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, third grade student Lucas Jameson taps in his student identification number to deduct a meal payment at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe, N.M. All students are offered the same lunch at Gonzales and other Santa Fe public schools to avoid any chance of embarrassing students whose parents may have fallen behind on meal payments. New Mexico in April became the first state to outlaw the shaming of children for any unpaid meals. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, second grade students Angelina Lopez, left, and Nasim Hamdouni, right, enter a student account code to track lunch purchases at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe, N.M. All students are offered the same lunch at Gonzales and other Santa Fe public schools to avoid any chance of embarrassing students whose parents may have fallen behind on meal payments. New Mexico in April became the first state to outlaw the shaming of children for any unpaid meals. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, third grader Elliana Vigil punches in his student identification meal to pay for a meal at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe, N.M. All students are offered the same lunch at Gonzales and other Santa Fe public schools to avoid any chance of embarrassing students whose parents may have fallen behind on meal payments. New Mexico in April became the first state to outlaw the shaming of children for any unpaid meals. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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In this Wednesday, May 17, 2017, file photo, graduating students fill the Columbia University campus during a graduation ceremony in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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A copy of the Declaration of Independence
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Lakeland University MBA student Patrick Tembwe scoops a fish out of a tank at Lake Orchard Aquaponics Thursday, June 29, 2017 in the Town of Mosel near Haven, Wis. (Gary C. Klein /The Post-Crescent via AP)
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This Monday, June 26, 2017 photo shows an entrance of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, about 25 kilometers, 15 miles, north of Berlin, Germany. The Bauhaus World Heritage is to be extended to include the Houses with Balcony Access on the Dessau-Toerten housing estate and the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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This Monday, June 26, 2017 photo shows a view at the dinning hall of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, about 25 kilometers, 15 miles, north of Berlin, Germany. The Bauhaus World Heritage is to be extended to include the Houses with Balcony Access on the Dessau-Toerten housing estate and the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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This Monday, June 26, 2017 photo shows a part of the facade of a dormitory of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, about 25 kilometers, 15 miles, north of Berlin, Germany. The Bauhaus World Heritage is to be extended to include the Houses with Balcony Access on the Dessau-Toerten housing estate and the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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This Monday, June 26, 2017 photo shows the sports hall of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, about 25 kilometers, 15 miles, north of Berlin. The Bauhaus World Heritage is to be extended to include the Houses with Balcony Access on the Dessau-Toerten housing estate and the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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This Monday, June 26, 2017 photo shows dormitories of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, about 25 kilometers, 15 miles, north of Berlin. The Bauhaus World Heritage is to be extended to include the Houses with Balcony Access on the Dessau-Toerten housing estate and the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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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)