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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)
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University of New Mexico athletics director Paul Krebs answers questions during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M., on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The university has reached a $10 million deal with Dreamstyle Remodeling, Inc. for the naming right to the school's famed basketball arena and its football stadium. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a school choice event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Officers work at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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An Irving police officer checks his rifle as he arrives at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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People stand in the parking lot while Irving police officers work at the shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Students walk out of the building as Irving police officers work at the shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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People walk out of a building as Irving police officers work at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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An officer leads a group of students walking out of the building as Irving police officers work at a fatal shooting scene on the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The situation prompted a lockdown at the school in the Dallas suburb. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Students and faculty exit a building with their hands up after a fatal shooting at North Lake College in Irving, Texas, on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Multiple people died in an apparent murder-suicide at the college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves into rooms. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
