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FILE - This undated file photo shows Lowell Holtz, a candidate for Wisconsin state superintendent. Holtz, a former teacher, principal and superintendent who is now retired, will face incumbent Tony Evers in the April 4, 2017, election. Personal records show that Holtz was chastised by the school board where he most recently worked for donating football field bleachers to a nearby private school his children attended without notifying the board. (Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
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FILE - In this March 18, 2015, file photo, Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston interviews for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Lansing, Mich. Whiston, Michigan's state superintendent, is dropping a plan to give a letter grade to every public school and, barring legislative action, instead will issue a report card showing indicators such as each school's proficiency on the state exam, The Associated Press has learned. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP, File)
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Marti Kashuba holds up a sign outside of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, birth control and other behaviors he describes as evil. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**
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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei poses for a portrait in between classes at Manual Academy in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical." (Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)
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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei practices the piano during class at Manual Academy, in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical." (Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)
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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei practices the piano during class at Manual Academy, in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical." (Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)
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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei, right, works with her teacher Kelly Nyquist during class at Manual Academy in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical."(Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)
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Pennsylvania poses with the Ivy League tournament trophy following an NCAA college basketball championship game against Princeton, Sunday, March 12, 2017, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania won 57-48. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
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Michigan celebrates with the trophy after the Big Ten NCAA college basketball championship game against Wisconsin, Sunday, March 12, 2017, in Washington. Michigan won 71-56. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017 photo, "Prince Peep," a rooster native to Malaysia, wears a sweater at Fuller Village retirement home in Milton, Mass. The sweater was one of many knitted by a group of women in the retirement home for chickens in a neighboring nonprofit education program. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 10, 2017, photo, Assistant Principal Whitney Watchman gives a tour of one of two new wash rooms at East High School in Salt Lake City. The school is transforming two small locker rooms into laundry/shower rooms for the school's homeless students in hopes of helping them with basic necessities so they can focus on learning, KSL-Radio reported. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 10, 2017, photo, Assistant Principal Whitney Watchman gives a tour of one of two new wash rooms at East High School in Salt Lake City. The school is transforming two small locker rooms into laundry/shower rooms for the school's homeless students in hopes of helping them with basic necessities so they can focus on learning, KSL-Radio reported. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 10, 2017, photo, one of two new wash rooms that will soon open is pictured at East High School in Salt Lake City. The school is transforming two small locker rooms into laundry/shower rooms for the school's homeless students in hopes of helping them with basic necessities so they can focus on learning, KSL-Radio reported. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 10, 2017, photo, a wash rooms is shown at East High School in Salt Lake City. The school is transforming two small locker rooms into laundry/shower rooms for the school's homeless students in hopes of helping them with basic necessities so they can focus on learning, KSL-Radio reported. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Desmond Ricks. With help from law students, the man in prison since 1992 is making a remarkable claim. He said Detroit police framed him for a murder with bullets that didn't come from the victim. Ricks and the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school are asking a judge to reopen the case. (Michigan Department of Corrections via AP)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, campaign posters representing a variety of candidates are displayed in a classroom at Niagara Falls High School in Niagara Falls, N.Y. With current events increasingly dominating classroom discussions, there's a debate among educators whether it's appropriate for teachers to weigh in with their own political views. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, teacher Julie Conti, right, leads her government class at Niagara Falls High School through a lesson about political cartoons, examining the structure and intent of the cartoons but staying neutral on whether she agrees with the content, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. With current events increasingly dominating classroom discussions, there's a debate among educators whether it's appropriate for teachers to weigh in with their own political views. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
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This March 8, 2017 photo shows the front page of a document explaining a certification exam known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test, designed to measure the reading and writing skills of aspiring teachers, in New York. New York state education officials are poised to scrap the test which critics say is racially biased, redundant and a poor predictor of who will succeed as teacher. But backers of the test say eliminating it could put weak teachers in classrooms. (AP Photo/Barbara Woike)
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Rebecca Haney, 16, works on math homework Jan. 11, 2017, in the Twin Falls motel room she shares with her mother, two siblings and three cats. Rebecca doesn't want her classmates to know about their living situation in Twin Falls, Idaho. (Drew Nash/The Times-News via AP)/The Times-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-FILE - In this Feb. 18, 1960 file photo, college students protesting the execution of Caryl Chessman stand on the San Francisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge during a protest march to San Quentin Prison. (AP Photo/File)
