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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)
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Four Michigan high school students were suspended after demonstrating against a pro-immigration banner on campus by holding up their own handmade "Trump" and "Build the Wall" signs, which eventually led to a heated, yet nonviolent, argument among students. (WZZM)
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Student assistant coach Robbie Nowak was promoted to "honorary head coach" for Northwest College's win over Little Big Horn College on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 in Powell, Wyo. He's pictured with assistant coach Greg Bennett. (Chelsea Blake /The Cody Enterprise via AP)
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Robbie Nowak sits in the center of the huddle during Northwest College's game against Little Big Horn College on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 in Powell, Wyo. (Chelsea Blake /The Cody Enterprise via AP)
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John Sullivan, a social studies teacher at Campbell High School in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, faces disciplinary action after he told faculty members in an email that he wouldn't teach students who were in the U.S. illegally. (KITV)
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Illustration on addressing college debt by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times