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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Richard Rodrigue, right, embraces his daughter Stephanie, 17, after she walked the runway in her high school's pre-prom fashion show in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Rodrigue is proud his daughter is part of a diverse school whose students speak dozens of languages, and hail from dozens of nations. Though he is conflicted; "There's got to be a point in time when you have to say, 'whoa, let's get the working people back up, let's bring the money in.' But they keep coming, keep coming," Rodrigue said. “I guess it just boils down to: What’s enough? Is that wrong? Am I wrong? Am I bad? That’s how I feel.” (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Lewiston High School students wait backstage to walk the runway for the school's prom fashion show at the Franco American Heritage Center in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, March 16, 2017. For more than a decade now, their community has been an experiment in immigration and all that comes with it _ the resentment, fear, friendships, triumphs, setbacks _ and Trump’s presidency marks another chapter in that struggle for the American soul. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Tabitha Beauchesne stands in her living room as photos of her husband and two children hang on the wall in her home in Auburn, Maine, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Beauchesne moved to Auburn, a city right across the river, because she believed that the refugee students at Lewiston schools take teachers' attention away from native-born kids. She voted twice for Barack Obama. Then she voted for Donald Trump, because she hopes his pledge to put America first means immigration into her hometown will stop, or at least slow down. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Abdiaziz Shaleh, 19, a senior and co-captain of the soccer team, grabs a textbook off the shelf during his American government class at Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Shaleh, whose family is from Somalia, is graduating from high school soon and plans to go to prep school in Massachusetts to play soccer and to prepare for college. "I want to become something," he said, listing engineer, entrepreneur or a doctor as possibilities. "Anything that could be useful." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Abdiaziz Shaleh, right, a Lewiston high school senior and co-captain of the soccer team, and Essa Gedi, center, both whose families emigrated from Somalia, sit with classmate Isiah Leach, left, during lunch in the school's cafeteria in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Two years ago, immigrant children led the high school soccer team to win the state championship, a moment heralded as a triumph for the city's embrace of its immigrant community. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-A mural celebrating diversity decorates a hallway in Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Fifteen years ago, the school district had an enrollment of 4,500 students and falling _ a sign of a city on its knees, says Lewiston School Superintendent Bill Webster. Today, there are 5,400 students, more than one-quarter of them immigrants, and the number is going up. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Trump supporter Stephanie Rodrigue, 17, picks up one of the campaign signs she's collected in her room in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Although too young to vote, Rodrigue supported Trump, so much she bellowed his name at pep rallies, affixed a campaign sticker to her laptop and came to be called by her classmates "the mini-Trump." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Rick Rodrigue, left, stands with his daughter Stephanie, 17, at their home in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, March 16, 2017. His daughter attends Lewiston High School where students speak dozens of languages, and hail from dozens of nations: Somalia, Djibouti, Congo, Yemen. "It will help her in life," Rodrigue says. "The world is not all white." Yet in November 2016, Rodrigue voted for Donald Trump. Rodrigue's reasoning: America is struggling, and America needs to take care of its own before it takes care of anyone else. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Spectators cheer runners at Wellesley College along the course of the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17, 2017, in Wellesley, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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In this Feb. 24, 2017 photo, Starke Primary School students in Pekin, Ill., react as a hydrogen balloon is ignited and other demonstrations by the Demo Crew, which is composed of students from Bradley University's Chemistry Club. Led by chemistry professor Dean Campbell, the program has been presented for more than 20,000 people, primarily middle school students to share an appreciation of science.(Fred Zwicky/Journal Star via AP)
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In this Feb. 24, 2017 photo, Starke Primary School students in Pekin, Ill., react as a hydrogen balloon is ignited by the Demo Crew, which is composed of students from Bradley University's Chemistry Club. Led by chemistry professor Dean Campbell, the program has been presented for more than 20,000 people, primarily middle school students to share an appreciation of science.(Fred Zwicky/Journal Star via AP)
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is seen in the State Department Library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on April 11, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama signs the "Every Student Succeeds Act," a major education law setting U.S. public schools on a new course of accountability, in Washington. States are grappling with as they are working to submit blueprints of how they will implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, a landmark education law meant to help struggling schools. The law allows states greater flexibility in dealing with low performing schools, but the flexibility also comes with the risk or doing too little, too much or too differently. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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This Tuesday, April 11, 2017 photo shows the entrance to North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, Calif., following the shooting death of a teacher and a student on Monday. Classes are scheduled to resume Monday, April 17, with additional personnel and crisis counselors on hand to help students who may need support. The school will also have enhanced security procedures. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017 photo, North Park Elementary School principal Yadira Downing, center rear, talks with Ruben Gutierrez and his grandson Jeffrey Imbriani, 7, after shooting death of a teacher and a student on Monday at the school in San Bernardino, Calif. Imbriani said he was a friend of Jonathan Martinez, the student who died. Classes are scheduled to resume Monday, April 17, with additional personnel and crisis counselors on hand to help students who may need support. The school will also have enhanced security procedures. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017 photo, North Park Elementary School principal Yadira Downing, center right facing camera, with glasses on, talks with faculty, staff and parents following the shooting death of a teacher and a student on Monday at the school in San Bernardino, Calif. Classes are scheduled to resume Monday, April 17, with additional personnel and crisis counselors on hand to help students who may need support. The school will also have enhanced security procedures. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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In this Saturday, April 15, 2017, photo, cars pass LaGuardia Community College in New York, where new legislation would allow some students to attend tuition-free. Some higher education experts question whether New York’s first-in-the nation free college tuition plan should be a model for other states. The plan would cover tuition at public colleges for students whose families earn $125,000 or less. But there are questions whether more should be done for the poorest students, and to pay for the many college costs beyond tuition. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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FILE - In this April 10, 2017, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs new legislation for free state college tuition and juvenile justice reform, during a signing ceremony in New York. Even as higher education experts applaud the concept, they question some of the fine print of New York's plan and whether it is indeed a model that should be replicated elsewhere. New York's plan would cover in-state public college tuition for full-time students whose families earn $125,000 or less. But there are questions whether more should be done for the poorest students, and to pay for the many college costs beyond tuition. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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In this April 13, 2017 photo, people walk near the main entrance to the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, where new legislation would allow some students to attend tuition-free. New York's plan would cover in-state public college tuition for full-time students whose families earn $125,000 or less. Some experts are concerned that the way the plan is set up, it would actually do little to help the neediest students, whose tuition is already covered by other aid. They also question that the plain doesn't address the many other college costs beyond tuition. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
