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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, bottom center, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, poses with students after speaking at a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, listens during a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., on April 7, 2017. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (Associated Press)
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black woman to head the Justice Department, waves as she arrives to speak at a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. The 57-year-old North Carolina native graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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A member of the Terre Haute Police Department puts on his gear and prepares to enter Terre Haute North High School, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Terre Haute, Ind. Dozens of police officers stormed the school following a reported bomb threat, but law enforcement later said they thought it was a hoax and that everyone was safe. (Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star via AP)
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Terre Haute Police Chief John Plasse, left, and Tom Balitewicz, the director of student services for the Vigo County School Corporation, walk out of Terre Haute North High School during a lockdown at the school, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Terre Haute, Ind. Dozens of police officers stormed the school following a reported bomb threat, but law enforcement later said they thought it was a hoax and that everyone was safe. (Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star via AP)
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Wichita State NCAA college basketball head coach Gregg Marshall speaks about the schools move to the American Athletic Conference, ending a relationship with the Missouri Valley Conference that dated back 72 years, in Wichita, Kan., Friday, April 7, 2017. (Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, second from right, is greeted by his husband, Michael Shiosaki, after reading a statement to the media, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, left, walks away with his husband, Michael Shiosaki, after reading a statement to the media, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, left, walks away with his husband, Michael Shiosaki, after reading a statement to media members, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray reads a statement to media members, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayor denied the allegations through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood, 15, identifies as a girl and now runs on the female track team. (Image: Hartford Courant website screenshot)
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In this March 2017 photo, Fred Stauffer, center, a former Unionville High School teacher, is flanked by former students Dan Fogel and Megan Plunkett Cromer at the school in Kennett Square, Pa. As part of a class assignment back in the early 90s, Stauffer had his classes write what they thought they would be in the future. Those letters were revealed 24 years later. (Fran Maye /Delaware County Daily Times via AP)
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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)
