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FILE- In this Dec. 10, 2016, file photo, Alabama All Star Henry Ruggs, III of R. E. Lee, returns a kick off for a touchdown during the Alabama vs. Mississippi All-Star high school football game at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Ala. This season’s five-star college football recruits are a committed group. There are 32 players who have a five-star rating on 247Sports’ composite rankings and only four enter signing day uncommitted.(Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)
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Jessie Lamphere, a transgender high school student, stands with his mom, Tyler Lamphere, left, after a brief hearing at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. A bill that would have restricted which locker rooms South Dakota transgender students could use was withdrawn Tuesday. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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AC Milan's Giacomo Bonaventura, left, scores during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Udinese at the Udine Friuli stadium, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (Alberto Lancia/ANSA via AP)
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Education Secretary-nominee Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 17, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - This Sept. 9, 2016 photo shows Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. A study of 800 colleges found that the average endowment return was a 2 percent loss, the worst performance since the economic recession in 2009. The largest endowments were among those hit hardest, including Harvard’s, which posted a 5 percent loss but remained the biggest at $34 billion. Yale’s remained No. 2 with $25 billion. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A study of 800 colleges found that the average endowment return was a 2 percent loss, the worst performance since the economic recession in 2009. The largest endowments were among those hit hardest, including Harvard’s, which posted a 5 percent loss but remained the biggest at $34 billion. Yale’s remained No. 2 with $25 billion. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Ashley C. Ford poses for a photo in New York. Ford felt driven to act by a sad fact of life in the nation’s school cafeterias: Kids with unpaid lunch accounts are often embarrassed with a substitute meal of a cold cheese sandwich and a carton of milk. She appealed to her 66,000 Twitter followers with a solution, and in the nearly two months since, people around the country have been inspired to donate thousands of dollars to erase debts that can follow kids throughout their school careers. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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FILE - This Jan. 25, 2017 file photo shows a lunch served at J.F.K Elementary School in Kingston, N.Y., where all meals are now free under the federal Community Eligibility Provision. A donor inspired by a tweet raised money to pay off lunch debt in districts around the country, as well as thousands of dollars in overdue lunch fees at other schools in the Kingston district. (AP Photo/Mary Esch, FIle)
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In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, students fill their lunch trays at J.F.K Elementary School in Kingston, N.Y., where all meals are now free under the federal Community Eligibility Provision. A donor inspired by a tweet raised money to pay off lunch debt in districts around the country, as well as thousands of dollars in overdue lunch fees at other schools in the Kingston district. (AP Photo/Mary Esch, File) **FILE**
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Illustration on dismantling the National Endowment for Democracy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Nebraska state Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha, left, listens to Sen. Burke Harr of Omaha, in the Legislative Chamber in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. The legislative committee will hear testimony on Monday on Vargas' proposed measure that would require high schools to allow students to breastfeed and set alternative attendance and coursework standards for those who are pregnant or parenting. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Dania DeLone wipes away tears as she describes her experiences raising a baby in a high school environment during testimony before the Education Committee in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Nebraska state Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha introduced a measure that would require high schools to allow students to breastfeed and set alternative attendance and coursework standards for those who are pregnant or parenting. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Nebraska state Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha introduces his measure that would require high schools to allow students to breastfeed and set alternative attendance and coursework standards for those who are pregnant or parenting at an Education Committee hearing in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Dania DeLone describes her experiences raising a baby in a high school environment during testimony before the Education Committee in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Nebraska state Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha introduced a measure that would require high schools to allow students to breastfeed and set alternative attendance and coursework standards for those who are pregnant or parenting. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Nebraska State Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha, left, meets with Dania DeLone, right, who described her experiences raising a baby in a high school environment during testimony before the Education Committee in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Sen. Vargas introduced a measure that would require high schools to allow students to breastfeed and set alternative attendance and coursework standards for those who are pregnant or parenting. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Nebaska state Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha introduces his measure that would require high schools to allow students to breastfeed and set alternative attendance and coursework standards for those who are pregnant or parenting at an Education Committee hearing in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, surrounded by fifth-grade students at D.C. Bilingual Public Charter School, said Monday, "We want to make it easier for every parent to choose a school that best fits their child's needs." (Julia Brouillette/The Washington Times)
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Stockton University biology students, from left, Francisca Ekekwe, Valkyrie Falciani and Danielle Ertz work with spores in sterilized tubes that will be studied for agriculture in low gravity at the International Space Station, in Galloway, N.J., Monday Jan. 30 2017. Their experiments using spores were chosen by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) to go to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Mission 11 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). (Ben Fogletto/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks with students during a bicentennial colloquia at the University of Michigan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel presents Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Doctor of Laws degree, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, during a ceremony at the university in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
