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Precious Hughes, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, cries as she explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. 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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Dorothy Haymer of Yazoo City, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. 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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Indigo Williams, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. 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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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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Southern Poverty Law Center senior staff attorney Will Bardwell, explains the specifics to the 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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Charles Clark, a physics professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., greets graduates and faculty of Bowie State University, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. "I thought I'd come and greet people on my own behalf and give them a good impression of the university of Maryland at College Park." he said. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Bowie State University ROTC students comfort each other during a memorial vigil for Richard Collins III, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State's auditorium in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Marquise Wade, from left, sophomore class president, and Darrin Branch, coordinator of Greek Life on campus, set up a picture of Richard Collins III for a memorial vigil for Collins, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State's auditorium in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Bowie State students Michael Aregay, from left, Charles Marshall, Kevin Stovall Jr. and alumni Kiahl Fletcher join in a candle light vigil for Richard Collins III, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Relatives of Richard Collins III, center, release balloons during a candlelight vigil for Richard Collins III, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Lt. Col. Joel Thomas, professor of Military Sciences, wipes tears from his face while memorializing Richard Collins III during a memorial vigil for Collins, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State's auditorium in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. Collins was commissioned into the Army from the college's ROTC program. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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FILE - In a March 8, 2017 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison, Wis. The Legislature's budget committee is slated to consider whether to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition and tie campuses' state aid to new performance standards. Walker's two-year budget calls for keeping tuition frozen and then cutting it by 5 percent in the second year. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at a summit hosted by American Federation for Children in Indianapolis, Monday, May 22, 2017. DeVos said the Donald Trump administration is proposing "the most ambitious expansion" of school choice in American history. (Robert Scheer/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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Draining the Swamp: Chapter One (Illustration by Gary Varvel for Creators Syndicate)
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A stray bullet punctured a window in the house where Dequante Hobbs Jr., 7, was eating a snack at the dinner table on Sunday night and fatally wounded him. He was supposed to graduate kindergarten on Tuesday. Police are still searching for information on his death. (Liz Moughon/The Courier-Journal via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 16, 2017 photo, Steve Walz, from left, Rick Petersen and Keegan Petersen communicate work on constructing the scaffolding around the University of Missouri columns on the Francis Quadrangle in Columbia, Mo. The six columns, which were built on the Columbia campus in 1842, have been battered by weather and students over the years. (Emil Lippe/Missourian via AP)
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In this Wednesday, May 17, 2017 photo, workers assemble scaffolding around the columns on the Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo. The six columns, which were built in 1842, have been battered by weather and students over the years. (Emil Lippe/Missourian via AP)
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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2016 file photo shows the entrance to St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. The school released a report on Monday, May 22, 2017, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against a dozen men and one woman who worked at the school between 1952 and 1999. An investigation found substantiated claims of abuse involving 13 former faculty and staff including former teachers, chaplains and an admissions officer. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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In this May 4, 2017, photo Joanna Smith, of Houston, walks her twin first-graders home from school. One of her children is transgender and Smith fears the child's school would be compelled by the state to "out" her child's biological gender should a "bathroom bill" become law. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
