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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)
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A protester, center, is escorted out of commencement exercises during a speech by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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A protester, center, is escorted out of commencement exercises during a speech by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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A group of students stand and turn their backs during a commencement exercise speech by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Bethune-Cookman University president Edison Jackson, right, appeals to protesters disrupting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' speech during commencement exercises, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO BETSY, NOT BESTY - United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivers a commencement speech to graduates at Bethune-Cookman University, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivers a commencement address to graduates at Bethune-Cookman University, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Bethune-Cookman University president Edison Jackson, left, and United States Secretary of Education 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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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump looks at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as he speaks during a meeting with parents and teachers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. A schism between wealthy funders over private-school vouchers became visible in 2017 during the confirmation process for DeVos, a billionaire heiress who was nominated by Trump for education secretary despite having no experience as a teacher or school administrator. DeVos attended private religious schools in Michigan. Her children were homeschooled and attended religious schools. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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