Education

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FILE - This Monday, May 4, 2015, file photo New Mexico Public Education Secretary Hanna Skandera discusses the results of teacher evaluations during an interview in Albuquerque N.M. New Mexico Public Education Secretary Hanna Skandera is stepping down after seven years on the job. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

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Deborah Ballard-Reisch, a tenured communications professor at Wichita State University, has chosen to retire in protest of the school's new weapons policy allowing students to carry concealed guns on campus. (KWCH 12)

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In this Feb. 3, 2016, file photo, Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing in Baltimore. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP) ** FILE **

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In this Friday, june 2, 2017 photo, Alanna DeLuca , 4, in the "Ready-K" carries items on her head after going to the locker, at St. Ursula School in Hampton Township, Pa. The school is closing and being consolidated. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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In this Friday, June 2, 2017 photo, Friar Larry Adams organizes the student body and staff for a group photo on the steps of St. Ursula Church on the last day of school for St. Ursula School, in Hampton Township, Pa. The school is closing and being consolidated. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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In this Friday, June 2, 2017 photo, members of Christopher Brewer's Choir kneel in the choir loft of St. Ursula Church during Mass on the last day of school for St. Ursula School, in Hampton Township, Pa. The school is closing and being consolidated. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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In this June 2, 2017 photo, Diann Ranallo, first grade teacher at St. Ursula School, tears up as several students made a presentation at the awards ceremony, after Mass, on the last day of school for St. Ursula School, in Hampton Township, Pa. Ranallo was retiring. The school is closing and being consolidated. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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In this June 1, 2017, photo Israa Enan wears a stylish hijab during an interview at Deering High School in Portland, Maine. Enan, who recently graduated, admitted she shied away from going out for high school sports teams because of the embarrassment she would have felt if her stylish scarf fell off during competition. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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In this May 24, 2017, file photo Fadumo Adan, a lacrosse player at Deering High School, wears a sports hijab provided by the school during practice in Portland, Maine. Deering High School is providing sport hijabs with the goal of making Muslim girls comfortable and boosting their participation in sports. Tennis co-captains Liva Pierce and Anaise Manikunda solicited private donations to avoid criticism for using taxpayer funds on religious apparel, and ended up with enough to outfit all teams, including lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, softball, field hockey and track. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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In this May 24, 2017, photo Tabarek Kadhim, a sophomore at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, wears a sports hijab while playing a tennis match in Windham, Maine. Deering High School is providing sport hijabs with the goal of making Muslim girls comfortable and boosting their participation in sports. Tennis co-captains Liva Pierce and Anaise Manikunda solicited private donations to avoid criticism for using taxpayer funds on religious apparel, and ended up with enough to outfit all teams, including lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, softball, field hockey and track. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Immigrant students without legal status stand in the gallery of the Hall of the House on the final day of session at the State Capitol, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Hartford, Conn. A bill was pulled that would have made them eligible for financial aid. The students held a symbolic graduation on the grounds of the Capitol early in the day. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders walks between graduates as he arrives for the Brooklyn College commencement ceremony, Tuesday, May 30, 2017, in New York. The former Democratic presidential candidate, who hails from Brooklyn and attended the school for a year, urged graduates to stand together and not let demagogues divide the country. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy speaks with the media after voting in the state's primary election at the Fairview Elementary School in Middletown, N.,J., Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (Thomas P. Costello/The Asbury Park Press via AP)

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Twenty years ago today, Christopher Drexler's mother gave birth to him in a bathroom stall at her high school prom. Then, she suffocated him and threw him in the trash can before rejoining her friends on the dance floor.

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Twenty years ago today, Christopher Drexler's mother gave birth to him in a bathroom stall at her high school prom. Then, she suffocated him and threw him the trash can before rejoining her friends on the dance floor.

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State Rep. Kim LaSata, left, R-Bainbridge Township, and Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker, R-Lawton, listen after they voted for a $1.6 billion higher education budget bill that advanced out of a House-Senate conference committee, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Schuitmaker said she hopes to still give universities more state funding depending on how high-level talks proceed between Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and legislative leaders, who are at odds over teacher pensions. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

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In this May 31, 2017 photo, Susie Gonzalez plays with her son Xavier outside their home in Omaha, Neb. Gonzalez dropped out of high school during her junior year when she gave birth to her son. Under a new state law, Nebraska public schools must outline how they'll address a number of challenges faced by teen parents. (Rebecca Gratz/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

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In this May 31, 2017 photo, Susie Gonzalez plays with her son Xavier outside their home in Omaha, Neb. Gonzalez dropped out of high school during her junior year when she gave birth to her son. Under a new state law, Nebraska public schools must outline how they'll address a number of challenges faced by teen parents. (Rebecca Gratz/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

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In this June 2, 2017, photo Zephrey Holloway's decorated mortarboard is displayed at Flathead High School's graduation in Kalispell, Mont. An administrator at the school prevented Holloway from wearing the mortarboard, painted by his grandmother, despite a new state law that allows Native American students to wear such regalia at special occasions. Principal Peter Fusaro issued an apology Monday, June 5, 2017, saying a school policy that disallowed graduates from using "tape, glitter, leis, bouquets or any other adornments" on caps and gowns was applied incorrectly. (Greg Lindstrom/Flathead Beacon via AP)