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In this Friday, March 31, 2017 photo, a fifth grade student shows his geometry work to a teacher at Columbus Elementary School, in Columbus, New Mexico. American kids living in Mexico make up about 60 percent of Columbus Elementary's student body. Many are the children of parents who were deported and moved here to be able to send their kids to school in the United States. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Friday, March 31, 2017 photo, Columbus Elementary School students, cross the border from Columbus, New Mexico, US, into Palomas, Mexico, after a day of school. Every morning about 1,200 American kids in backpacks and sneakers arrive at the U.S. port of entry on the border with Puerto Palomas, Mexico, where they board yellow buses to be transported to nearby schools in Columbus and Deming, New Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reads Dr. Seuss to Kindergarten students at Royal Palm Elementary School in Miami on Friday, April 7, 2017. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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In a March 29, 2017 photo, Dezeray Meverden, 11, and Rachel Wallett, 12, both students at Rawhide Elementary, look at photos of local soldiers who fought in World War II to match up with the postcard they received at the beginning of World War II Day on March 29, 2017. in Gillette, Wyo. Close to 800 sixth-graders packed Cam-plex Energy Hall for the Campbell County Rockpile Museum's World War II Day, an annual event where students see, hear, taste and feel what life was like in the early 1940s on the home front as well as on the front lines. (Kelly Wenzel/Gillette News Record via AP)
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North Korean university students cheer and wave their national flag as their country's women's soccer team competes against South Korea in a qualifying soccer match for the Asian Football Confederation Cup at the Kim Il Sung Stadium on Friday, April 7, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
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Minnesota-Duluth players celebrate after they defeated Harvard 2-1 during an NCAA Frozen Four men's college hockey semifinal, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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In this file photo, Republican state Sen. Bob Worsley, left, answers a question from Democratic Sen. Katie Hobbs, foreground, during an Arizona Senate debate on a proposal to expand Arizona's private school voucher program to all students Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Phoenix. On August 8, AP reported that the law was put on hold as enough signatures had been received by the state to put the question up to voters in 2018 as a ballot referendum. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)
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Democratic state Sen. Katie Hobbs, foreground, asks Republican Sen. Bob Worsley, background, a question during an Arizona Senate debate on a proposal to expand Arizona's private school voucher program to all students Thursday, April 6, 2017 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)
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Republican state Sen. Bob Worsley, standing, explains a deal he negotiated to cap overall growth in a proposal expanding Arizona's private school voucher program to all students Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)
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Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association, stands with Maryland Democrats on Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Annapolis, Md., while urging lawmakers to override Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of a Maryland plan for identifying and assisting struggling schools. The Maryland General Assembly overrode the veto later in the day. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017 photo, Avonworth 8th grader Nick Slater, center, and his classmates work on the Chase the Antelopes 5k project the school in Pittsburg. On April 29, 2017, Avonworth will host the first-ever Chase the Antelopes 5k Run & One-Mile Walk at the High School/Middle School. The students are contacting local businesses for sponsorship, designing the t-shirt and medal, and finding different locations to promote the event. (Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Firefighters work to cut pieces of damaged tin roof down after high winds damaged the roof of St. Aloysius Catholic Church at Gonzaga High School in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. Buildings in the Washington area were damaged as rough weather moved through. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Firefighters work to cut pieces of damaged tin roof down after high winds damaged the roof of St. Aloysius Catholic Church at Gonzaga High School in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Newspaper bins lie on the ground as firefighters work to cut pieces of damaged tin roof down after high winds damaged the roof of St. Aloysius Catholic Church at Gonzaga High School in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. Buildings were damaged in the Washington area as rough weather moved through. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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The damaged the roof of St. Aloysius Catholic Church at Gonzaga High School in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. Buildings were damaged in the Washington area as rough weather moved through. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017 AT 1 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER-In this Sept. 21, 2013 photo provided by the BAM Education Awards, Deven Black holds his Bam!E prize for top school librarian in the country, at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The path that took Black from suburban New York dad and nationally recognized school librarian to a room in a gritty homeless shelter - and to a bloody death at the hands of his roommate - was as baffling as it was tragic. (BAM Education Awards via AP)
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Demonstrators gathered across the street from the North Dakota State University campus in Fargo wave at a honking motorist during the Thursday, April 6, 2017, event meant to protest the school's use of live animals in its trauma training course. The event was organized by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which has offered to pay for a surgical simulator if the school stops the practice of using live pigs in the course. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)
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Fox News star Bill O'Reilly's latest book, "Old School," has debuted in the top slot on The New York Times' bestseller list. (Image: "Old School: Life in the Sane Lane" cover screenshot)
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More than 20 Charlton-Pollard Elementary students and one adult were hospitalized when a Beaumont school district bus was involved in a traffic accident on U.S. 69 in Lumberton, Texas, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. The bus was taking several dozen Charlton-Pollard Elementary School students and several adults back to school from a Big Thicket field trip. Officials had no information on how the accident happened, but photos showed the bus veered off the road, through a roadside ditch and into a rock. (Guiseppe Barranco/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
