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FILE - In this April 12, 2017, file photo, provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Hillary Clinton addresses the audience as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo listens at LaGuardia Community College in the Queens borough of New York, where Clinton joined Cuomo for a ceremonial signing of the state's new free tuition bill. It's the hope of proponents such as Bernie Sanders and Clinton, who made debt-free college a key talking point in their Democratic presidential campaigns, that New York's first-in-the-nation free tuition program for middle-class students will spread to other states. And that's the prediction of Cuomo, its main champion, who called the plan a "model for the nation." (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP, File)
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In this Saturday, April 15, 2017 photo, people walk across campus at Queens 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. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appear onstage together during an event at New York's LaGuardia Community College. It's the hope of proponents such as Sanders and Hillary Clinton, who made debt-free college a key talking point in their Democratic presidential campaigns, that New York's first-in-the-nation free tuition program for middle-class students will spread to other states. And that's the prediction of Cuomo, its main champion, who called the plan a "model for the nation." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, April 11, 2016, file photo, Tyann Sorrell listens to speakers at a news conference on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. A legal settlement has been reached between the University of California, Berkeley, the former law school dean, Sujit Choudhry, and his former assistant, Sorrell, who said Choudhry sexually harassed her. Sorrell had sued her former boss and the university over the harassment allegations. Choudry in turn had sued the school for singling him out for additional investigation as the school looked into several cases of sexual harassment. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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FILE--In this Dec 4, 2010, file photo, Mayfield head coach Michael Bradley, center right, celebrates with his layers after winning the state 5A high school football championship game against Manzano in Albuquerque, N.M. Athletics are losing out in the competition for limited dollars as one of the nation's largest school districts prepares for an anticipated 2 percent cut in state funding. (Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, Northside Christian High School quarterback Griffin Alstott gets help from his mom, Nicole, on where to sign as he commits to Purdue University at Northside Christian High School on National Signing Day in St. Petersburg, Fla. At right is his father, Mike Alstott, who used to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NCAA has voted to allow high school football players to sign with colleges as early as December, make early official visits and put a two-year waiting period on Bowl Subdivision teams from hiring people close to a recruit. If approved by the Board of Governors on April 26, the signing period change would take effect Aug. 1. (Eve Edelheit/The Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)
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FILE - This Monday, April 10, 2017 file photo school staff greet students at North Park Elementary School, at Cajon High School, in San Bernardino, Calif., after a deadly shooting occurred at the elementary school. Police on Friday, April 14, released portions of the 911 calls from the shooting that left a teacher and student dead. In one of the short tapes, a caller identifies the shooter as a teacher's husband. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu,File)
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In this April 10, 2017, photo, North Park Elementary teaching assistant Jennifer Downing, right, evacuates the building with students after a shooting occurred at the school in San Bernardino, Calif. Downing said she thinks the shooter, Cedric Anderson, would have killed others if he hadn't run out of bullets and stopped to reload Monday.Anderson fatally shot himself after killing his estranged wife, teacher Karen Elaine Smith, and an 8-year-old boy, Jonathan Martinez, in a special-education classroom at North Park Elementary. (John Valenzuela/The Press-Enterprise via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Washington State Patrol, emergency personnel work the scene of a crash involving a school bus and semi-truck Friday, April 14, 2017, near Colville, Wash. A student was taken to a hospital and several others suffered none life-threatening injuries in a crash involving a semi-truck and a school bus in eastern Washington state. Washington State Patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney said that there were 25 elementary school students and a driver on the bus. (Washington State Patrol via AP)
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From left, University of Idaho General Counsel Kent Nelson, Police Chief James Fry, Dean of Students Blaine Eckles and police Captain Tyson Berrett confer before a news conference on Friday, April 14, 2017, in Moscow, Idaho. The press conference was held to provide more information about a rocket fuel explosion that injured multiple University of Idaho students Thursday evening. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
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Moscow Police Chief James Fry, right, and University of Idaho Vice President For Infrastructure Dan Ewart give a news conference on campus on Friday, April 14, 2017, in Moscow, Idaho. They spoke about a rocket fuel explosion that injured multiple University of Idaho students Thursday evening. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wave at the audience as they arrive onstage at an event at LaGuardia Community College, in New York for the announcement of Cuomo's proposal for free tuition at state colleges. Democrats still smarting from Hillary Clinton's presidential loss are already looking for a new standard bearer for 2020. And some observers say Cuomo is already acting like it, increasingly positioning himself with party leaders, aiming his message at middle-class angst and touting measures such as free tuition as an example of the kind of big ideas he can accomplish. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE - In this April 12, 2017 file photo provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Hillary Clinton applauds as Gov. Cuomo speaks from the podium at LaGuardia Community College in the Queens borough of New York during a ceremonial bill signing of the a first-in-the nation free tuition plan for students from middle-class families. Speculation Cuomo is plotting a run for president grew louder this week after his appearance with Hillary Clinton and budget plan some observers say reads like a map to the White House. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP, FIle)
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In this March 17, 2017 photo, Larry Shimmin, who heads the Building Trades program at United Township High School, poses for a photo in front of a student-built house in Silvis, Ill. The students had help from electricians, plumbers and other builders when they needed specific expertise or equipment the program does not possess, but otherwise, did much of the work. (Brian Achenbach/The Dispatch via AP)
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In this March 30, 2017 photo, Hadar Hartstein, aka Miss Kindergarten, who has made a career of selling lesson plans to teachers, poses for a photograph at her home in Lake Forest, Calif. Hartstein is one of the most successful contributors of Teachers Pay Teachers, an online marketplace for teacher-created materials. She creates materials for teaching activities, takes photos of them, then sells the ideas online and says she has earned more than $1 million in sales over the past six years. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)
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In this Monday, April 3, 2017, photo, Samantha Cucu types on a laptop inside her classroom at Tappan Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich. The English and language arts teacher is among a number of educators nationwide who purchase lessons from other teachers online. One site, Teachers Pay Teachers, said it has helped make millionaires out of some of its contributors since launching about 10 years ago. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)
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In this Monday April 3, 2017, photo, Mary Beth Nerone, a former middle-school teacher from Rochester, N.Y., shows materials from her online store in New York. After losing her job as a language arts teacher to budget cuts three years ago, Nerone began stocking the store with writing, poetry and other curricula exercises she created for other teachers to purchase. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this Monday April 3, 2017, photo, Mary Beth Nerone, a former middle-school teacher from Rochester, N.Y., display materials from her online store in New York. After losing her job as a language arts teacher to budget cuts three years ago, Nerone began stocking the store with writing, poetry and other curricula exercises she created for other teachers to purchase. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this Monday April 3, 2017, photo, Mary Beth Nerone, a former middle-school teacher from Rochester, N.Y., shows materials from her online store, in New York. After losing her job as a language arts teacher to budget cuts three years ago, Nerone began stocking the store with writing, poetry and other curricula exercises she created for other teachers to purchase. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this Saturday, April 8, 2017, Professor Ryan Mathur, left, prepares geological equipment to search for old lead mines with other geologists and Juniata College students in a field in Tyrone Township, Pa. The students prepared days earlier by plotting out possible sites for the search. (Ryan Brown /Altoona Mirror via AP)
