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Dominic Doe cheers on Rainier Beach teammates from the dugout as they play Bishop Blanchet in a Metro League game at home Wednesday March 29, 2017. The Rainier Beach High School Vikings baseball team was given no money this year and had to fundraise to save their season. They raised over $42,000 through GoFundMe. (Bettina Hansen /The Seattle Times via AP)
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DeShaun Stuckey of Rainier Beach gets ready to bat against Bishop Blanchet for a home Metro League game Wednesday March 29, 2017. The Rainier Beach High School Vikings baseball team was given no money this year and had to fundraise to save their season. They raised over $42,000 through GoFundMe. (Bettina Hansen /The Seattle Times via AP)
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Rainier Beach teammates pray before playing Bishop Blanchet at home Wednesday March 29, 2017. The Rainier Beach High School Vikings baseball team was given no money this year and had to fundraise to save their season. They raised over $42,000 through GoFundMe. (Bettina Hansen /The Seattle Times via AP)
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In this undated photo, a person walks on the campus of Olympic College in Bremerton, Wash. This fall adult students can earn the credit they need to graduate high school through OC's High School 21+ program, a high school equivalency program for students 21 years or older. (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2016, file photo, Florida State wide receiver Travis Rudolph (15) sheds Wake Forest defender Jesse Bates III in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Tallahassee, Fla. Former college receivers Malachi Dupre of LSU and Travis Rudolph of Florida State are examples of pro prospects who left high school as elite national recruits and now enter the NFL draft trying to overcome a perceived lack of production in college. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2016, file photo, LSU wide receiver Malachi Dupre (15) tries to break through the tackle of Southern Mississippi defensive back Curtis Mikell (19) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Baton Rouge, La. Former college receivers Malachi Dupre of LSU and Travis Rudolph of Florida State are examples of pro prospects who left high school as elite national recruits and now enter the NFL draft trying to overcome a perceived lack of production in college. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, a fire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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A leaflet is seen stapled to a message board near Sproul Hall on the University of California at Berkeley on Friday, April 21, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. The campus is bracing for a showdown next week, when the conservative provocateur Ann Coulter has vowed to speak in defiance of the university's wishes. Officials, police and the campus Republicans who invited Coulter, say there are valid concerns for violence in what is being called an ongoing "Battle of Berkeley." (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, University of California, Berkeley police guard the building where Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak. The campus is bracing for a showdown next week, when the conservative provocateur Ann Coulter has vowed to speak in defiance of the university's wishes. Officials, police and the campus Republicans who invited Coulter, say there are valid concerns for violence in what is being called an ongoing "Battle of Berkeley." (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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A new prosthetic holds a bow as it awaits ten-year-old Isabella Nicola Cabrera at the engineering department of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, April 20, 2017. A group of five students designed a new prosthetic for Isabel to play the violin. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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In this recent photo, a group of eighth-grade students at The Exploris School, pose with Joe Holt Jr., in Raleigh, N.C. The students are asking Wake County to name a future school after the Holt family, local African-American family who fought for integration. (Madison Iszler/The News & Observer via AP)
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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)