Education

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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 -In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Trenyce Hadaway, an 8th grader at Landstown Middle School, right, keeps an eye on the street in front of their home in Virginia Beach, Va., for a cab as her sister, Kyliegh Hadaway looks at her tablet before the cab arrives to take her to school. Their family was displaced by Hurricane Matthew and now lives in a different school district but Kyliegh and her older sister Trenyce are attending their original schools until the end of the school year. A cab to take Trenyce to school arrives about an hour later. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

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In this March 9, 2017 photo, Longmont Americorps member Genevieve Spina works with fifth grader Yazir Trujillo after school at Rocky Mountain Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. (Matthew Jonas /The Daily Times Call via AP)

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In this March 9, 2017 photo, Longmont Americorps member Genevieve Spina works with fifth grader Yazir Trujillo after school at Rocky Mountain Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. (Matthew Jonas /The Daily Times Call via AP)

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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system in North Carolina is scrapping plans to use the children's book "Jacob's New Dress" for a first-grade lesson on bullying after conservatives complained. (Amazon)

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A group of mothers nursed their babies outside Metropolitan High School in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday to protest the districts allegedly oppressive breastfeeding policies. (CBSLA)

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FILE - In this March 24, 2015 file photo students stand near candles in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, Germany. Students of this school were among the victims of of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps. Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the jet on March 24, 2015, killing all 150 people on board. Guenter Lubitz, the father of the Germanwings pilot says his son couldn't have committed such an act. He plans a press conference Friday March 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)

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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2017 file photo, Emmanuel Macron, candidate for the 2017 French presidential elections and his wife Brigitte attend the annual dinner of the Representative Council of France's Jewish Associations (CRIF) in Paris. French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron forms an inseparable team with his wife Brigitte _ his former high school theater teacher, 24 years his senior, who is breaking with French tradition and fierily campaigning by his side. (Christophe Petit Tesson/ Pool via AP, File)

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Plastic cups spell out Rockville Strong, at Rockville High School in Rockville, Maryland, on Thursday, March 23, 2017. The school has been thrust into the national immigration debate after a 14-year-old student said she was raped in a bathroom, allegedly by two classmates, including one who authorities said came to the U.S. illegally from Central America. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) ** FILE **

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FILE – In this May 5, 2004, file photo, Nathan DeRolph, who in 1991 started the original lawsuit that led to an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that the state's school funding system was unconstitutional, gestures during a school funding rally at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Twenty years after justices ruled 4-3 in the case DeRolph v. State on March 24, 1997, hundreds of new school buildings dot the landscape and the notion of what constitutes an adequate education is regularly debated in U.S. state capitals. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

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Plastic cups spell out Rockville Strong, at Rockville High School in Rockville, Maryland, on Thursday, March 23, 2017. The school has been thrust into the national immigration debate after a 14-year-old student said she was raped in a bathroom, allegedly by two classmates, including one who authorities said came to the U.S. illegally from Central America. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

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The Banks High School mascot is visible on track hurdles at the school in Banks, Ore., Thursday, March 23, 2017. In Oregon, school districts with Native American mascots must abandon them by July or risk punishment that could include the withholding of state funds. But with the approval of the state, a handful of districts are working with tribes to keep some version of their mascots in exchange for concessions, including better classroom lessons on the history and culture of the state's many tribes. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

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The Banks High School mascot is visible on the side of the football stands at the school in Banks, Ore., Thursday, March 23, 2017. In Oregon, school districts with Native American mascots must abandon them by July or risk punishment that could include the withholding of state funds. But with the approval of the state, a handful of districts are working with tribes to keep some version of their mascots in exchange for concessions, including better classroom lessons on the history and culture of the state's many tribes. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

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In this Monday, March 20, 2017, photo, Iowa State University President Steven Leath answers questions at a news conference following the announcement of his selection as the next president of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. Leath will begin his tenure in July. (Jim Little/Opelika-Auburn News via AP)

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FILE - In this April 7, 2011 file photo, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department is investigating Hunter for possible campaign violations. The House Ethics panel has been investigating allegations that Hunter improperly used campaign funds to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, such as trips to Hawaii and Italy and tuition for Hunter's school-age children. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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A progressive student organization at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, has apologized after a social experiment involving racist fliers backfired. (KMSP)

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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)