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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo shows The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. When school administrators didn't investigate Itza Ayala's 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo shows The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. When school administrators didn't investigate Itza Ayala's 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this May 6, 2017 photo provided by University of Albany, University of Albany's TD Ierlan (3), fields the ball while begin pursued by University of Binghamton's Austin Macchi (22) during the America East Conference Championship in Albany, N.Y. Freshman TD Ierlan could help the team progress past the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, something they have yet to accomplish. (Bill Ziskin/University of Albany via AP)
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In this May 6, 2017, photo provided by University of Albany, University of Albany's Connor Fields (5) prepares to take a shot against University of Binghamton goalkeeper Tanner Cosens (7) during the America east Conference Championship in Albany, N.Y. Fields leads the nation in scoring with 108 points on a well-balanced team that averages 15.8 goals per game. (Bill Ziskin/University of Albany via AP)
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In this May 10, 2017 photo, Clayton Narveson, Marine and Iwo Jima survivor, talks about about World War II while speaking to William Blount High School Honor students in Maryville, Tenn. (Tom Sherlin/The Daily Times via AP)
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FILE - In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Middlebury College students turn their backs to Charles Murray, unseen, during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt. Hundreds of students protested his lecture, forcing the college to move his talk to an undisclosed campus location from which it was live-streamed to the original venue. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education, a group that monitors free speech on campuses. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017, file photo, a group of students stand and turn their backs during a commencement exercise speech by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education, a group that monitors free speech on campuses. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017, file photo, a protester, center, is escorted out of commencement exercises during a speech by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education, a group that monitors free speech on campuses. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
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FILE - In this April 27, 2017 file photo, demonstrators, sharing opposing views, argue during a rally in Berkeley, Calif., near the University of California, Berkeley campus, to show support for free speech and to condemn the views of Ann Coulter and her supporters. Coulter's speech was cancelled. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education, a group that monitors free speech on campuses. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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In this April 27, 2017, photo, Lauren Southern wears a protective helmet as she speaks during a rally for free speech near the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. Demonstrators gathered to show support for free speech, while others condemned the views of Ann Coulter and her supporters. Coulter's speech was canceled. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education, a group that monitors free speech on campuses. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**
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The men's lacrosse team at Adelphi University recently used a speech by President Trump as their entrance music. (Instagram/@barstoolsports)
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First responders move a driver from a school bus that crashed near Kirkwood, Mo., on Thursday, May 11, 2017. The school bus, carrying students from St. Louis to a suburban grade school as part of a voluntary desegregation program, crashed after hitting an interstate guardrail and plunging about 15 feet down an embankment. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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First responders move a driver from a school bus that crashed near Kirkwood, Mo., on Thursday, May 11, 2017. The school bus, carrying students from St. Louis to a suburban grade school as part of a voluntary desegregation program, crashed after hitting an interstate guardrail and plunging about 15 feet down an embankment. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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The top of the damaged school bus is seen as first responders clean up after a school bus crashed near Kirkwood, Mo., on Thursday, May 11, 2017. The school bus, carrying students from St. Louis to a suburban grade school as part of a voluntary desegregation program, crashed after hitting an interstate guardrail and plunging about 15 feet down an embankment. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Bethune-Cookman University president Edison Jackson, left, and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos applaud students as they are introduced during commencement exercises, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Some Bethune-Cookman University graduates, seen at left, turn their backs as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, delivers the commencement address to the graduates at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla., Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Drawing shouts of "Liar!" and "Just go," DeVos powered through her commencement address Wednesday at the historically black university, even as many of the graduating students turned their backs to her in protest. (David Tucker/The Daytona Beach News-Journal via AP)
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Political reactions (Illustration by Gary Varvel for Creators Syndicate)
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In this image made from surveillance video provided by the San Bernardino Police via the San Bernardino City Unified School District, Cedric Anderson walks into North Park Elementary before he opened fire in a classroom in San Bernardino, Calif. The video released Wednesday, May 10, 2017, shows Anderson strolling into the school office at the elementary school on April 10 before killing his estranged wife and an 8-year-old boy. (San Bernardino Police/San Bernardino City Unified School District via AP)
