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Rapper Trey Songz, left, attends the Public School runway show during Fashion Week in New York, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
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Williams College students trek across the snowy campus in Williamstown, Mass., during a winter storm which brought blizzard conditions and heavy snow to the region. Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. (Gillian Jones/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)
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FILE - This Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo shows a rear gate at Calhoun College, one of Yale's 12 residential colleges for undergraduates. On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, Yale University said it is renaming Calhoun College after Grace Hooper, a trailblazing computer scientist, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
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FILE - This 1985 file photo shows 79-year-old Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, Yale University said it is renaming Calhoun College after Hooper, a trailblazing computer scientist, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral. (Department of Defense via AP)
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FILE - This Monday, May 4, 2015, file photo New Mexico Public Education Secretary Hanna Skandera discusses the results of teacher evaluations during an interview in Albuquerque N.M. Skandera "absolutely" would welcome a visit to any New Mexico school by newly confirmed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.A Skandera spokesman says the secretary would gladly would host DeVos. Meanwhile, the state's largest school district says they'd have to check with parents and the school board first. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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This Jan. 25, 2017 photo Dr. Suzanne Allen, left, of the University of Washington School of Medicine and Gonzaga University's Courtney Law in Spokane, Wash. discusses expansion of the medical school's programs in Spokane, Wash. The University of Washington is pairing with Gonzaga University in a partnership to dramatically expand its offerings in Spokane. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 2017 - In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, conductor, teacher and composer Dr. Andrea Ramsey, conducts her University Choir class at the Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder, Colo. campus. (Jeremy Papasso /Daily Camera via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 2017 - In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, conductor, teacher and composer Dr. Andrea Ramsey, conducts her University Choir class at the Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder, Colo. campus. (Jeremy Papasso /Daily Camera via AP)
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In this Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 photo, fourth-grade teacher Daniele Halfhill teaches her students roller derby skills at Fulton Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. (Jessica Reilly/Telegraph Herald via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 11 - In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo, simulation center coordinator Tracy Hagele, left, observes from the control room as nursing graduate Ava White and students Zach Krall and Anthony Waworoendeng examine of a simulator manikin during an open house at Union College in Lincoln, Neb. The Nursing Simulator Center, just opened a $350,000 expansion in January, gives 100 students the chance to practice hard skills like starting an IV or fitting a central line. (Kristin Streff/The Journal-Star via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 11 - In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo, nursing students Zach Krall, left, and Anthony Waworoendeng examine a simulator manikin in the Nursing Simulation Center during an open house at Union College in Lincoln, Neb. The Nursing Simulator Center, just opened a $350,000 expansion in January, gives 100 students the chance to practice hard skills like starting an IV or fitting a central line. (Kristin Streff/The Journal-Star via AP)
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FILE - In this May 2, 2016 file photo, San Diego Padres' Adam Rosales reacts after striking out in a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in San Diego. During a winter visit to Hawaii, Rosales met up with a high school baseball player he knew only as "Hawaiian Eli." He doesn't even know the teen's last name and hardly remembers the promising shortstop's high school. Yet Eli Lai, his coach and his father will never forget how the kind-hearted major leaguer helped provide a lift to a young man who desperately needed one this winter. He needed an example of how to work. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
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In this Feb. 7, 2017, photo provided by Josh Hansen, Eli Lai stand on the baseball field at Kealakehe High School in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. To Oakland Athletics infielder Adam Rosales, he's "Hawaiian Eli." He doesn't even know the teen's last name and hardly remembers the promising shortstop's high school. Yet Eli Lai, his coach and his father will never forget how the kind-hearted major leaguer helped provide a lift to a young man who desperately needed one this winter. He needed an example of how to work. (Josh Hansen via AP)
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FILE - In this April 21, 2016, file photo, San Diego Padres third baseman Adam Rosales practices his swing prior to the team's baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in San Diego. During a winter visit to Hawaii, Rosales met up with a high school baseball player he knew only as "Hawaiian Eli." He doesn't even know the teen's last name and hardly remembers the promising shortstop's high school. Yet Eli Lai, his coach and his father will never forget how the kind-hearted major leaguer helped provide a lift to a young man who desperately needed one this winter. He needed an example of how to work.(AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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In this Feb. 7, 2017, photo provided by Josh Hansen, Eli Lai, right, and baseball coach Josh Hansen pose on the field at Kealakehe High School in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. To Oakland Athletics infielder Adam Rosales, he's "Hawaiian Eli." He doesn't even know the teen's last name and hardly remembers the promising shortstop's high school on the Big Island. Yet Eli Lai, his coach and his father will never forget how the kind-hearted major leaguer helped provide a lift to a young man who desperately needed one this winter. He needed an example of how to work. (Josh Hansen via AP)
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New Haven Police arrested demonstrators who blocked the intersection of Elm and College Streets in New Haven, Conn., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, and refused to move during a protest and demonstration in favor of changing the name of Yale University's Calhoun College. The peaceful arrests were pre-planned and coordinated between the demonstrators and New Haven Police. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP)
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New Haven Police arrested demonstrators who blocked the intersection of Elm and College Streets in New Haven, Conn., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 and refused to move during a protest and demonstration in favor of changing the name of Yale University's Calhoun College. The peaceful arrests were pre-planned and coordinated between the demonstrators and New Haven Police. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP)
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John Lugo, center, of Unidad Latina en Accion of New Haven, is arrested during a demonstration after some protesters blocked the intersection of Elm and College Streets in New Haven, Conn., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, and refused to move. The protesters are in favor of changing the name of Yale University's Calhoun College. The peaceful arrests were pre-planned and coordinated between the demonstrators and New Haven Police. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP)
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John Lugo, of Unidad Latina en Accion of New Haven, is arrested during a demonstration after some protesters blocked the intersection of Elm and College Streets in New Haven, Conn., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, and refused to move. The protesters are in favor of changing the name of Yale University's Calhoun College. The peaceful arrests were pre-planned and coordinated between the demonstrators and New Haven Police. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, student Student Ryan Reynolds, 22, from Saegertown, grinds a panel inside the Erie Institute of Technology auto body technician lab in Erie, Pa. The institute calls the building an auto body technician lab, but it looks, sounds, smells and feels more like a garage. The school sees this building, outfitted with a lift, paint booth and frame-straightening machine, as a place where students can take the first steps toward a new career. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
