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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)
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FILE - This photo provided by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration shows Eulalio Tordil. Former federal officer Tordil pleaded guilty on Monday, June 26, 2017, to killing his wife Gladys Tordil on May 5, 2016, in the parking lot of a high school in Beltsville where she was picking up her daughters. (Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration via AP, File)
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Kansas Association of School Boards lobbyist Mark Tallman speaks to reporters about education issues during a news conference, Monday, June 26, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Tallman said a new education funding law is a good start toward meeting schools needs. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Nina Zagat and her husband Tim Zagat are the founders and publishers of Zagat Restaurant Surveys. They met at Yale Law School and were both practicing attorneys when they founded Zagat Surveys, both at age 51
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Taikichiro Mori (1 March 1904 – 30 January 1993) was Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Yokohama City University who later became a real estate investor at age 51. During his tenure at the University, he founded the Mori Building Company. After retiring from the University in 1959, he became the president of the company. His investments made him the richest man in the world in 1992, when he had a net worth of $13 billion.
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In this June 16, 2017, photo, Danielle Ramos, 30, poses at MassBay Community College in Wellesley, Mass., where she pursued her education after being defrauded by a for-profit college. Thousands of students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges were told by the Obama administration that their student loans would be forgiven, but the Trump administration has yet to keep that promise. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this June 16, 2017, photo, Danielle Ramos, 30, poses at MassBay Community College in Wellesley, Mass., where she pursued her education after being defrauded by a for-profit college. Thousands of students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges were told by the Obama administration that their student loans would be forgiven, but the Trump administration has yet to keep that promise. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this June 16, 2017, photo, Danielle Ramos, 30, plays with her 4-year-old son, Kymoni, at MassBay Community College in Wellesley, Mass., where she pursued her education after being defrauded by a for-profit college. Thousands of students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges were told by the Obama administration that their student loans would be forgiven, but the Trump administration has yet to keep that promise. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this June 16, 2017, photo, Danielle Ramos, 30, poses at MassBay Community College in Wellesley, Mass., where she pursued her education after being defrauded by a for-profit college. Thousands of students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges were told by the Obama administration that their student loans would be forgiven, but the Trump administration has yet to keep that promise. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
