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In this April 5, 2017 photo, the abandoned Tiller Elementary School playground is seen in the foreground with the school in the background in downtown Tiller, Ore. Almost all of the downtown in Tiller, a dot on a map in remote southwestern Oregon, is for sale for $3.5 million and the elementary school is for sale separately for $350,000. A potential buyer has come forward but is remaining anonymous -- and back-up offers are still being accepted. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, the abandoned Tiller Elementary School is seen through a field of weeds in downtown Tiller, Ore. Almost all of the downtown in Tiller, a dot on a map in remote southwestern Oregon, is for sale for $3.5 million and the elementary school is for sale separately for $350,000. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017 photo, Don Ward, a retired high school history teacher, explains to Bellamy Sorensen, Gunnison Valley High School senior, about a family that lives in an apartment in the South Parc Apartments while handing out Easter baskets to refugees in South Salt Lake, Utah. When the LDS Church launched its "I Was a Stranger" initiative last year, Ward couldn't help but smile because people were suddenly motivated and wanted to get involved. The Deseret News reported people were unaware that there are 60,000 refugees in Utah. Ward estimated that he and others have helped more than 20,000 refugees in Salt Lake County over the past eight years. (Nicole Boliaux/The Deseret News via AP)
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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017 photo, Gunnison Valley High School students Tiandra Taylor, right, and Taneisa Taylor, center, give a boy an easter basket while Don Ward, a retired high school history teacher, looks on in the South Parc Apartments in South Salt Lake, Utah. Ward, estimated that he and others have helped more than 20,000 refugees in Salt Lake County over the past eight years. And he's done so while battling cancer. (Nicole Boliaux/The Deseret News via AP)
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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017 photo, Parker Judy, right, freshman from Gunnison Valley High School, and Don Ward, center, retired high school history teacher, give a boy an Easter basket in the South Parc Apartments in South Salt Lake, Utah. Ward, estimated that he and others have helped more than 20,000 refugees in Salt Lake County over the past eight years. And he's done so while battling cancer. (Nicole Boliaux/The Deseret News via AP)
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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017 photo, students from Gunnison Valley High School, organized by Don Ward, left, a retired high school history teacher, hand out Easter baskets to refugees in the South Parc Apartments in South Salt Lake, Utah. When the LDS Church launched its "I Was a Stranger" initiative last year, Ward couldn't help but smile because people were suddenly motivated and wanted to get involved. The Deseret News reported people were unaware that there are 60,000 refugees in Utah. Ward estimated that he and others have helped more than 20,000 refugees in Salt Lake County over the past eight years. (Nicole Boliaux/The Deseret News via AP)
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Former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon is introduced during the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The symposium honors the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth focusing on the former president's most important priorities and how they remain relevant today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Maria Shriver, journalist and former first lady of California speaks during the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at the Harvard Kennedy School, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The symposium honors the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth focusing on the former president's most important priorities and how they remain relevant today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, D-Mass., smiles while he speaks during the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at the Harvard Kennedy School, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The symposium honors the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth focusing on the former president's most important priorities and how they remain relevant today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy's son and President John F. Kennedy's grandson, opens a panel discussion during the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at the Harvard Kennedy School, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The symposium honors the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth focusing on the former president's most important priorities and how they remain relevant today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy listens as she is introduced at the start of the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The symposium honors the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth focusing on the former president's most important priorities and how they remain relevant today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy speaks about her father as she kicks off the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The symposium honors the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth focusing on the former president's most important priorities and how they remain relevant today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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CannaDaddy's Wellness Center marijuana dispensary owner Christina Zusman, left, greets a customer into the store in Portland, Ore., Thursday, April 20, 2017. Thursday marks marijuana culture's high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather, at 4:20 p.m., in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank their customers with discounts.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Lorenzo Romar answers questions during an NCAA college basketball press conference, Thursday, April 20, 2017, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. Romar, the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Washington, joined the staff of Arizona coach Sean Miller, who used to be one of his chief rivals. (Courtney Talak/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
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Lorenzo Romar answers questions during an NCAA college basketball press conference Thursday, April 20, 2017, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. Romar, the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Washington, joined the staff of Arizona coach Sean Miller, who used to be one of his chief rivals. (Courtney Talak/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics shows graduate student Wenxin Huai. Huai, a 24-year-old University of Wisconsin graduate student scheduled to receive her master's degree next month has been identified as the pedestrian killed when a car left the road and drove onto a Madison sidewalk Saturday night. The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office said Monday, April 17, 2017, that Huai died from her injuries in the crash. Huai, was from Beijing, where she graduated from Peking University. (AP Photo/University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics)
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, left, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos walk down a hallway as they visit Van Wert High School on Thursday, April 20, 2017 in Van Wert, Ohio. (Richard Parrish/The Lima News via AP Photo/The Lima News via AP)
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A student leaves Gibbs-Green Plaza at Jackson State University, in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, April 20, 2017. The plaza is the main artery on the urban campus. Tuition and fees would rise at Mississippi's eight public universities in fall 2017- under changes approved Thursday by the College Board. Jackson State is looking at a 5 percent increase. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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In this Nov. 21, 2016 photograph, students walk across the University of Southern Mississippi campus in Hattiesburg, Miss. Tuition and fees would rise at Mississippi's eight public universities in fall 2017- under changes approved Thursday, April 20, 2017, by the College Board. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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In this Nov. 21, 2016 photograph, a student skateboards past University of Southern Mississippi College of Business on the Hattiesburg, Miss., campus. Tuition and fees would rise at Mississippi's eight public universities in fall 2017- under changes approved Thursday, April 20, 2017, by the College Board. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
