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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Amanda Jackson holds a basketball that belonged to her son as she poses for a photo on April 28, 2017, at a basketball court in a park where he used to play while growing up in Olympia, Wash. Jackson's son waited two years to tell her that he had been assaulted at a basketball camp in 2010 by several teammates, as a freshman at Capital High School in Olympia, Wash. “I felt like if I told someone,” he testified, “then I would have been, you know, excluded from the team and not able to play varsity basketball.” He finally spoke up after more boys were jumped at a similar camp, leading the district to investigate the school. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Amanda Jackson holds a basketball that belonged to her son as she poses for a photo on April 28, 2017, at a basketball court in a park where he used to play while growing up in Olympia, Wash. Jackson's son waited two years to tell her that he had been assaulted at a basketball camp in 2010 by several teammates, as a freshman at Capital High School in Olympia, Wash. “I felt like if I told someone,” he testified, “then I would have been, you know, excluded from the team and not able to play varsity basketball.” He finally spoke up after more boys were jumped at a similar camp, leading the district to investigate the school. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Flags hang over the court at a varsity basketball game at Flower Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. In 2011, Charles Freet lost his job as boys basketball coach at the school, and now works at a Dallas-area private school. After a Flower Flower Mound High School teacher reported that players were putting their fingers in teammates' bottoms, he told administrators investigating the allegations that the acts were merely a joke and not hazing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-High school basketball coach Charles Freet speaks with an unidentifed man during warm ups before a junior varsity basketball game in Argyle, Texas, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Freet is working at a Dallas-area private school after he lost his job as boys basketball coach at Flower Mound High School in 2011. After a Flower Flower Mound High School teacher reported that players were putting their fingers in teammates' bottoms, he told administrators investigating the allegations that the acts were merely a joke and not hazing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-High school basketball coach Charles Freet stands on the sidelines during a junior varsity basketball game in Argyle, Texas, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Freet is working at a Dallas-area private school after he lost his job as boys basketball coach at Flower Mound High School in 2011. After a Flower Flower Mound High School teacher reported that players were putting their fingers in teammates' bottoms, he told administrators investigating the allegations that the acts were merely a joke and not hazing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Authorities investigate a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said middle school students were on the full-sized yellow school bus that crashed about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at a busy crossroads northeast of downtown Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Christina Marquez, right, picks up her son Angelo Marquez at the scene of a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Angelo Marquez was in a the school bus during the crash. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Family members pick up students at the scene of a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said middle school students were on the full-sized yellow school bus that crashed about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at a busy crossroads northeast of downtown Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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A crime scene investigator walks by a wrecked car involved in a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said middle school students were on a full-sized yellow school bus that crashed about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at a busy crossroads northeast of downtown Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Authorities investigate a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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American University student government president Taylor Dumpson speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017. Several bananas hanging from nooses were found on the AU campus on Monday, May 1, 2017, less than a day after Dumpson became the school's first black student body president. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Kensington Parkwood Elementary School Principal Barbara Liess, who came under fire for creating a "smash space" for faculty members to unload their frustrations by demolishing pieces of furniture, has announced her resignation. (WHAG-TV)

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ADVANCED FOR RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 Brant Wimmer, 13, an eighth-grader at North Davidson Middle School, recently received a $500 scholarship from the Wayne C. Henderson Scholarship Committee to pay for lessons regarding acoustic Appalachian music. (Julia Hudgins/The Dispatch via AP) taken April 27.

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This image made from May 21, 2014, video shows the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. North Korea confirmed on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, the detention of American citizen Kim Sang Dok, who was referred to as Kim Sang-duk when Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, where he was teaching accounting, previously announced his detention. Kim's English name is Tony Kim. (AP Photo)

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This undated file photo provided by the University of Vermont, shows a black rhino horn hanging on the wall in an academic building in Burlington, Vt. Authorities say the rhinoceros horn that had been on display at the University of Vermont for decades has been stolen, and school police are offering a reward for help in its recovery (Mark Biercevicz/University of Vermont via AP)

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FILE - In this April 18, 2011, file photo, Jane Meyer, former senior associate athletic director at the University of Iowa, speaks in Normal, Ill. Attorneys gave closing statements Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in a discrimination lawsuit filed by Meyer against the university. Meyer filed the suit after being transferred to another department after the firing of Iowa field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum, her partner. Meyer's job was eliminated in 2016. (Lori Ann Cook-Neisler/The Pantagraph via AP, File)

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Donor Bill Frost speaks at the announcement of the largest gift in Cal State history on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. He and his wife, Linda Frost, gave $110 million to Cal Poly's College of Science and Mathematics. (David Middlecamp /The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo) via AP)

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Donor Bill Frost speaks at the announcement of the largest gift in Cal State history on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. He and his wife, Linda Frost, gave $110 million to Cal Poly's College of Science and Mathematics. From left are College of Math and Science Dean Philip Bailey and Linda Frost. (David Middlecamp /The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo) via AP)