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Jane Meyer, former senior associate athletic director at the University of Iowa, gets a hug from her partner Tracey Griesbaum, right, following a news conference, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. A jury on Thursday awarded more than $1.4 million to Meyer ruling that the university had discriminated against her because of her gender and sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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An out-of-control brawl between four girls at Cheltenham High School, just north of Philadelphia, reportedly left seven teachers and three safety officers injured, sending one teacher to the hospital. (ABC 6)
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In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 photo, Allyanna Jones stands outside Wilby High School in Waterbury, Conn. The 16-year-old junior was among more than 150 students suspended for dress code violations on April 21. The crackdown has brought attention to high suspension rates in the district. (AP Photo/Michael Melia)
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In this March 26, 2017 photo, people attend a rally for the Albany for All to support unity and inclusiveness in response to racist and offensive posted on social media, at Albany High School in Albany, Calif. Four Albany High School students sued a school district after they were suspended over their responses to Instagram posts that included a black student and coach with nooses around their necks. (Chris Treadway/East Bay Times via AP)
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Soon-to-be graduates, Callie Rittweger, left, and Ashley Owen, right, from the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts communications program, pose for photos at the Arch, Thursday, May 04, 2017. The university will be having its graduation ceremony May 5 at Sanford Stadium. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed legislation allowing guns on Georgia's college campuses today also. (John Roark/ Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this April 18, 2017, photo provided by KUER-FM, Spencer Campbell, Assistant Principal of Elk Ridge Middle School, helps students cross the street at the end of a school day in South Jordan, Utah. Campbell is one of two assistant principals at Elk Ridge and it’s his first year. Last year he was teaching 9th grade English at a school up the road. (Lee Hale/KUER-FM via AP)
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This Oct. 31, 2014, photo provided by Patrick Carns shows Timothy Piazza, center, with his parents Evelyn Piazza, left, and James Piazza, right, during Hunterdon Central Regional High School football's "Senior Night" at the high school's stadium in Flemington, N.J. Prosecutors in Pennsylvania are set to announce, Friday, May 5, 2017, the results of a grand jury investigation into the death of the Penn State student, Timothy Piazza, who fell down steps Feb. 4, during an alcohol-fueled pledge ceremony. (Patrick Carns via AP)
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Dessert course at District restaurant The Palm. (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)
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Demonstrators protest against Ann Coulter and her recent scheduled appearance on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this May 1, 2017, file photo, officials investigate after a fatal stabbing attack at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. An arrest affidavit said the University of Texas student accused of stabbing multiple students, one fatally, told police he didn't remember attacking anyone. Kendrex J. White, who authorities have said suffered from mental health troubles, was charged with murder in Monday's campus attack. He remained in jail Thursday, May 4, 2017, on $1 million bond. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a school buses drives through Estill, S.C. Estill Middle School stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a bible message is written on a sign outside a store along the town's business district in Estill, S.C. Most parents in the town have no choice but to send their children to the public schools. More than 90 percent of students at Estill Middle School receive free or reduced lunch. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a cross stands outside a church in Estill, S.C. Estill Middle School stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, the town's business district is reflected in the Hampton County Sheriff's office window in Estill, S.C. What actually happened at Estill Middle School is unclear. Law enforcement officials told AP that no students reported being raped or forced into sex. But a grandmother of two of the girls who said they were forced by two classmates to perform oral sex, there is no doubt that something terrible happened. She cannot forgive what she sees as a failure to pursue the case; she dismisses suggestions that the evidence was too flimsy. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a swing hangs in front of the offices of Hampton County School District 2 in Estill, S.C. U.S. schools are failing to protect the children in their care _ and not just in places like Estill, impoverished and plagued by public schools that have been underfunded for decades. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows Estill Middle School, in Estill, S.C., where one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds was reported in 2013. At least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows school buses parked at Estill Middle School, where a sexual assault case was reported in 2013, in Estill, S.C. Most parents have no choice but to send their children to the public schools. More than 90 percent of students at Estill Middle School receive free or reduced lunch. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows the gym, left, at Estill Middle School in Estill, S.C. The school, mired in poverty, stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Damian Davies, now an unpaid assistant coach for the Leechburg High School girls basketball team, stands courtside before his team plays in Bellevue, Pa., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. In January 2016, parents of two Leechburg boys high school basketball players complained that some players were sodomizing teammates with a phallic-shaped piece of wood they called a "yoshi" stick, records and interviews show. Davies lost his position as head boys coach, but says, "No players have ever come to me. ... As the players told me, either nothing happened or if it did it was a joke." (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Damian Davies, now an unpaid assistant coach for the Leechburg High School girls basketball team, sits courtside before his team plays in a league playoff game in Bellevue, Pa., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. In January 2016, parents of two Leechburg boys high school basketball players complained that some players were sodomizing teammates with a phallic-shaped piece of wood they called a "yoshi" stick, records and interviews show. Davies lost his position as head boys coach, but says, "No players have ever come to me. ... As the players told me, either nothing happened or if it did it was a joke." (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
