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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)
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An injured student is put into an ambulance as 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)
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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. Beaumont school district spokeswoman Nakisha Burns says one student was airlifted to a trauma hospital in Houston. (Guiseppe Barranco/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
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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)
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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)
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Jerry Walker, a former St. Anthony's basketball standout, speaks to the media outside of the high school before the announcement that the school will close it's doors at the end of the year in Jersey City, N.J. Wednesday, April 5, 2017. St. Anthony's, the school that bears the stamp of Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley, will shut its doors in June. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Record via AP)
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Bob Hurley, Saint Anthony High School president, speaks to members of the media about the closing of the Catholic school at the end of the school year in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, April 5, 2017. St. Anthony's has won 28 New Jersey state titles and four national championships. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Record via AP)
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Bob Hurley, Saint Anthony High School president, speaks to members of the media about the closing of the Catholic school at the end of the school year in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, April 5, 2017. St. Anthony's has won 28 New Jersey state titles and four national championships. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Record via AP) /The Record via AP)
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First lady Melania Trump, Queen Rania of Jordan and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visit Excel Academy Public Charter school in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Mrs. Trump made her first foray in the neighborhoods of the city she says will become her adopted hometown with a visit to a charter school for girls, to highlight the Trump administration's focus on school choice. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
