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Panels of the court for the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Final Four are laid in place Friday, March 24, 2017, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Bob Baum)
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FILE - In this March 4, 2017, file photo, Nathan Hale forward Michael Porter Jr. dribbles downcourt against Garfield in the first half of the Washington state boys 3A high school basketball championship in Tacoma, Wash. The University of Washington released Porter from his national letter of intent. The university confirmed the decision on Thursday, March 23, 2017, one day after new Washington coach Mike Hopkins was formally introduced. Porter is widely regarded as the top high school senior in the country. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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UConn coach Geno Auriemma displays a Quinnipiac University T-shirt before his team's Sweet 16 NCAA women's college basketball practice in Bridgeport, Ct., Friday, March 24, 2017. This is the first year both Connecticut schools have made it as far as the NCAA regional semifinals. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 -In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Kyliegh Hadaway keeps her eyes on the road in front of her Virginia Beach, Va., home just after 7a.m. looking for the cab that will take her to school at Green Run Elementary School where she is in the 5th grade. Her family was displaced by Hurricane Matthew and now lives in a different school district but Kyliegh and her older sister Trenyce Hadaway, an 8th grader at Landstown Middle School, are attending their original schools until the end of the school year. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 -In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Kyliegh Hadaway jumps into the cab in front of her home in Virginia Beach, Va., on her way to school at Green Run Elementary School where she is in the 5th grade. Her family was displaced by Hurricane Matthew and now lives in a different school district but Kyliegh and her older sister Trenyce Hadaway are attending their original schools until the end of the school year. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2017, AT 9:00 A.M. EDT.= Heritage High School student John Kerelejza works on the circuit board of the drone he was building during intersession on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2017. The students used their intersession week off of school to build the drones. (Jill Nance /News & Daily Advance via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 -In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, Kyliegh Hadaway heads out the front door in Virginia Beach, Va., and into a cab that will take her to school at Green Run Elementary School where she is in the 5th grade. Her family was displaced by Hurricane Matthew and now lives in a different school district but Kyliegh and her older sister Trenyce Hadaway are attending their original schools until the end of the school year. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2017, AT 9:00 A.M. EDT.-E.C. Glass student Erin McCarthy high fives instructor David Childress after successfully flying her drone for the first time on Friday, March 3, 2017 in Lynchburg, Va. The students used their intersession week off of school to build the drones. (Jill Nance/News & Daily Advance via AP)
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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)
