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High school students protest in opposition of Donald Trump's presidential election victory in front of City Hall in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (credit)
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Ambulances and emergency vehicles line up at Canton High School after a tornado ripped through the city of Canton, in Texas, on Saturday, April 29, 2017. Authorities say fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit the small East Texas city of Canton. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Ambulances and emergency vehicles line up at Canton High School after a tornado ripped through the city of Canton, in Texas, on Saturday, April 29, 2017. Authorities say fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit a small city in East Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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In this photograph taken on Thursday, April 13, 2017, Connor Mitchell, right, works on a computer at a cafe in San Francisco. With college costs rising steadily and with more courses available online for free, some observers are beginning to question the need for a traditional college education that may include lectures on Greek philosophy but burden students with massive debt. Mitchell's university classes take place online through Minerva, he doesn't have any exams and he studies in a different country every year. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, center, visit a pre-kindergarten class on at the Sacred Heart School in the Staten Island borough of New York on the first day for the city's public schools and the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education. Free school for 4-year-olds was de Blasio's signature issue during his successful run for mayor in 2013. Facing re-election he has announced an ambitious plan to expand the effort to 3-year-olds. (Susan Watts/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education. Free school for 4-year-olds was de Blasio's signature issue during his successful run for mayor in 2013. Facing re-election he has announced an ambitious plan to expand the effort to 3-year-olds. (Theodore Parisienne/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
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In this photo taken April 27, 2017, founder Adam Braun, right, leads a meeting mapping out growth strategy at MissionU in San Francisco. MissionU, which began accepting its first applications last month, offers a one-year program in data analytics and business intelligence with an upfront tuition of $0. As part of a profit-sharing agreement, MissionU students will be giving back 15 percent of their salary for three years after graduation, given that they make at least $50,000 per year. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this photo taken April 27, 2017, co-founders Adam Braun, left, and Mike Adams, right, interview a prospective student at MissionU in San Francisco. MissionU, which began accepting its first applications last month, offers a one-year program in data analytics and business intelligence with an upfront tuition of $0. As part of a profit-sharing agreement, MissionU students will be giving back 15 percent of their salary for three years after graduation, given that they make at least $50,000 per year. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this photo taken April 27, 2017, founder Adam Braun poses at MissionU in San Francisco. MissionU, which began accepting its first applications last month, offers a one-year program in data analytics and business intelligence with an upfront tuition of $0. As part of a profit-sharing agreement, MissionU students will be giving back 15 percent of their salary for three years after graduation, given that they make at least $50,000 per year. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this April 13, 2017, photo, Dayton School District after-school program teacher Leslie Sweetwood helps Dhrau Hans, left, and Nova Laws get seedling trays ready for planting inside the Dayton High School's greenhouse in Dayton, Washington. (Dian Ver Valen/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP)
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In this April 13, 2017 photo, Dhrau Hans waters some freshly planted seeds inside the Dayton High School's greenhouse in Dayton, Wash. (Dian Ver Valen /Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP)
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Ambulances and emergency vehicles line up at Canton High School after a tornado ripped through the city of Canton, in Texas, on Saturday, April 29, 2017. Authorities say fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit the small East Texas city of Canton. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Ambulances and emergency vehicles line up at Canton High School after a tornado ripped through the city of Canton, in Texas, on Saturday, April 29, 2017. Authorities say fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit the small city in East Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT - In this March 15, 2017, photo children leave at the end of the school day at Stichting Mytylschool Suriname, a school for children with disabilities in Paramaribo, Suriname. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Barbara Byrd-Bennett appears to rub her eyes as she leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Friday, April 28, 2017, after being sentenced for her role in a bribery scandal. The former head of Chicago Public Schools was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday for steering $23 million in city contracts to education firms for a cut of more than $2 million in kickbacks. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Barbara Byrd-Bennett leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Friday, April 28, 2017, after being sentenced for her role in a bribery scandal. The former head of Chicago Public Schools was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday for steering $23 million in city contracts to education firms for a cut of more than $2 million in kickbacks.(Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Barbara Byrd-Bennett leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Friday, April 28, 2017, after being sentenced for her role in a bribery scandal. The former head of Chicago Public Schools was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday for steering $23 million in city contracts to education firms for a cut of more than $2 million in kickbacks. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Police officers and Transylvania University President Seamus Carey, in white shirt, confer at the scene of a stabbing on the school's campus in Lexington, Ky., Friday, April 28, 2017. A student was injured and another was arrested after a machete attack Friday morning at a Transylvania University coffee shop, according to Lexington police. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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A 19-year-old former Transylvania University student has been arrested after a machete attack on the central Kentucky campus left a woman injured, police said. (LEX 18)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this March 18, 2017 photo, Chaz Wing records the weather forecast at a radio station in Brunswick, Maine. Wing has testified that he was raped by other kids three times in his first year in junior high, even after repeatedly complaining of harassment to teachers and administrators. Chaz’s saga is more than a tale of escalating bullying. Across the U.S., thousands of students have been sexually assaulted, by other students, in high schools, junior highs and even elementary schools _ a hidden horror educators have long been warned not to ignore. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
