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Kansas state Rep. Larry Campbell, center, R-Olathe, the chairman of a House committee on school finance issues, confers with former state Sen. Jeff King, left, and J.G. Scott, right, the chief fiscal analyst for the Legislature's research staff, Friday, May 12, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. King, an attorney, is advising lawmakers as they draft an education funding plan to satisfy a state Supreme Court ruling (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Former Kansas state Sen. Jeff King, left, confers with Rep. Melissa Rooker, right, R-Fairway, during a House committee meeting on school funding issues, Friday, May 12, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Legislative leaders hired King, an attorney, to advise lawmakers as they draft an education funding plan to comply with a state Supreme Court order. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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This Friday, May 12, 2017, photo shows the Carson School, an elementary school in Cincinnati. Gabriel Taye, an 8-year-old boy, killed himself in January 2017 two days after being knocked unconscious by another Carson School student, and Cincinnati Public Schools released a 24-minute surveillance video Friday, May 12, 2017, that appears to show Gabriel trying to shake the hand of a boy who had hit another child, before collapsing to the floor after being pushed into a wall at the entrance of a boys' bathroom. (AP Photo/Lisa Cornwell)
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In this still image from a Jan. 24, 2017, surveillance video provided by Cincinnati Public Schools, the legs and feet of 8-year-old Gabriel Taye can be seen as he lies on the floor of a boys' bathroom after being knocked unconscious by another boy at Carson Elementary School. Two days later, Taye hanged himself with a necktie in the bedroom of his Cincinnati apartment. (Cincinnati Public Schools via AP)
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Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval smiles after signing Assembly Bill 385 expanding free parks admission for elementary students at Mormon Station State Historic Park in Genoa, Nev., Friday, May 12, 2017. Under the law, Nevada students ages 9-11 can play at state parks for free beginning in July. The measure builds on a federal program that allows fourth-graders to apply for free admission to all national parks and Nevada state parks. (AP Photo/Alison Noon)
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Students from the University of Southern California's Class of 2017 react during the commencement address by actor Will Ferrell during USC's 134th commencement ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday, May 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Parents and other demonstrators hold signs against bullying and in memory of Gabriel Taye, an 8-year-old boy who killed himself in January 2017 two days after being knocked unconscious by another Carson School student, on Friday, May 12, 2017, outside the elementary school in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Public Schools released a 24-minute surveillance video Friday that appears to show Gabriel trying to shake the hand of a boy who had hit another child, and then collapsing to the floor after being pushed into a wall at the entrance of a boys' bathroom. (AP Photo/Lisa Cornwell)
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Pro-life students are suing Fresno State University professor Gregory Thatcher, seen here in a screen grab from a video posted online by Alliance Defending Freedom, for what the students said was a violation of their rights to free speech.
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Former state Sen. Jeff King listens to a question from Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, during a meeting of a Senate committee on school funding Friday, May 12, 2017, in Topeka, Kan. Legislative leaders hired King, an attorney, to advise them as they draft an education funding plan designed to comply with a recent state Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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A yard sign supporting a $790 bond measure for the Portland Public Schools in Portland, Ore., is seen on May 9, 2017, in the lawn of a home that's just blocks from an elementary school that was built in 1925. The school bond measure would be the largest in state history. Proponents say the money is desperately needed to repair and update infrastructure at the city's schools, which last summer made national headlines after toxic levels of lead were found in school water fountains. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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A yard sign supporting a $790 bond measure for the Portland Public Schools in Portland, Oregon, is seen on May 9, 2017, in the lawn of a home that's just blocks from an elementary school that was built in 1925. The school bond measure would be the largest in state history. Proponents say the money is desperately needed to repair and update infrastructure at the city's schools, which last summer made national headlines after toxic levels of lead were found in school water fountains. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2016, file photo, a water fountain is covered because of lead in the drinking water at Creston Elementary School in Portland, Ore. An upcoming $790 bond measure for the Portland Public Schools would be the largest in state history. Proponents say the money is desperately needed to repair and update infrastructure at the city's schools, which last summer made national headlines after toxic levels of lead were found in school water fountains. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, file)
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A shot of Liberty University's 2016 commencement is seen here. Roughly 18,000 are expected to graduate on May 13 when President Trump gives the day's official address. (Liberty University)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - in this Thursday, April 20, 2017, photo, Heights Murray Elementary School teacher Mary Tranguch poses for a photo at the school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Tranguch, a second grade teacher, knows first hand how minority students can benefit from having minority teachers. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, MAY 13, AND THEREAFTER – In this April 28, 2017, photo, Lee Ann Wentzel, center, superintendent of the Ridley School District, speaks with Kim Holdredge, left, and Sarah Messina during a graphic design class at Ridley High School in Folsom, Pa. School districts in Pennsylvania counties near Philadelphia have moved faster than the rest of the state, and the nation, in growing the roster of female school superintendents. Out of the 61 school districts in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties, 21 districts are run by women, or 34 percent, compared to less than 29 percent of school districts statewide. (Ed Hille/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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In this April 18, 2017 photo, Charlie Schweinler and Celeste Battista listen to architect Jeanne Gang speak during a luncheon at Giovanni's Restaurant & Convention Center in Rockford, Ill. The 1982 Belvidere High School graduate, among the world's most esteemed architects, came home today to discuss her art with a crowd of more than 300 people. (Arturo Pernandez/Rockford Register Star via AP)
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This March 30, 2016, shows some of the produce grown in the local school's wood-heated aquaponics greenhouse in Naukati, Alaska. The state has released a new guidebook that other Alaska schools and community groups how to build greenhouses heated with a plentiful local resource, wood. (Colter Barnes via AP)
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Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown leaves the courthouse on Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Jacksonville, Fla., after being found of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, third from left, leaves the courthouse on Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Jacksonville, Fla., after being found of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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In a Tuesday, May 2, 2017 photo, fourth graders listen to teacher Ashleigh Schrodi, head of the garden team, in the Parson's Patch garden at Parson Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nev. When documentary filmmakers, Ciara Byrne and Kim MacQuarrie, launched Green Our Planet, a crowdfunding platform based in Las Vegas but aimed at supporting projects anywhere in the world, It gave rise to the largest school garden program in the country. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
