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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, Salt Lake City Democrat Rep. Angela Romero prepares to testify at the state Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Romero, a Utah lawmaker, is working on new statewide rules requiring college counselors to keep sex abuse reports confidential. The move comes after Brigham Young University faced significant backlash when it was revealed that some reported assault information was shared with the school's honor code office. Romero says her legislation was not spurred by the controversy at the Mormon-owned school but it would apply to public schools and private schools like BYU. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this April 20, 2016, file photo, protesters stand in solidarity with rape victims on the campus of Brigham Young University during a sexual assault awareness demonstration in Provo, Utah. Rep. Angela Romero, a Utah lawmaker, is working on new statewide rules requiring college counselors to keep sex abuse reports confidential. The move comes after Brigham Young University faced significant backlash when it was revealed that some reported assault information was shared with the school's honor code office. Romero says her legislation was not spurred by the controversy at the Mormon-owned school but it would apply to public schools and private schools like BYU. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This April 20, 2016, file photo, protesters stand in solidarity with rape victims on the campus of Brigham Young University during a sexual assault awareness demonstration, in Provo, Utah. Rep. Angela Romero, a Utah lawmaker, is working on new statewide rules requiring college counselors to keep sex abuse reports confidential. The move comes after Brigham Young University faced significant backlash when it was revealed that some reported assault information was shared with the school's honor code office. Romero says her legislation was not spurred by the controversy at the Mormon-owned school but it would apply to public schools and private schools like BYU. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.- "It's fresh and healthy and it's good," said Sarina Xiong, an eighth-grade student at Maplewood Middle School in Maplewood, Minn. on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 as she waits in line to pay for her lunch. "I'm trying to eat more healthy," she said. The school is one of several in the Twin Cities to embrace the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, which hopes to increase healthy eating and reduce waste by making foods more appealing and accessible for students. ( Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.- Students surround the salad bar at Maplewood Middle School in Maplewood, Minn. on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. The school is one of several in the Twin Cities to embrace the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, which hopes to increase healthy eating and reduce waste by making foods more appealing and accessible for students. (Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, Chris Kurz removes one of two violins he's made to show his old music teacher Don Carn during a visit to his alma mater William Senior High School in York, Pa. Valedictorian of his high school class, Chris Kurz, 27, dropped out of Penn State to study violin-making in Cremona, Italy. With his extended visa expiring in April, Kurz is now at a career crossroads. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, the body of a violin still being made by Chris Kurz rests on a chair during a visit to his alma mater William Senior High School in York, Pa. Valedictorian of his high school class, Chris Kurz, 27, dropped out of Penn State to study violin-making in Cremona, Italy. With his extended visa expiring in April, Kurz is now at a career crossroads. Kurz said he's funded his luthier training and back-and-forth traveling to Europe by waiting tables for weeks at a time at York City's White Rose Bar and Grill. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, William Penn music teacher Don Carn, left, hands back a violin to former student Chris Kurz after playing it for the first time during a visit to his alma mater William Senior High School in York, Pa. Valedictorian of his high school class, Chris Kurz, 27, dropped out of Penn State to study violin-making in Cremona, Italy. With his extended visa expiring in April, Kurz is now at a career crossroads. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, William Penn music teacher Don Carn plays a violin made by former student Chris Kurz during a visit by Kurz to his alma mater William Senior High School in York, Pa. Valedictorian of his high school class, Chris Kurz, 27, dropped out of Penn State to study violin-making in Cremona, Italy. With his extended visa expiring in April, Kurz is now at a career crossroads. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, Chris Kurz inserts a mirror inside the F-hole of a violin he constructed from scratch during a visit to his alma mater William Senior High School in York, Pa. Valedictorian of his high school class, Chris Kurz, 27, dropped out of Penn State to study violin-making in Cremona, Italy. With his extended visa expiring in April, Kurz is now at a career crossroads. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)
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Investigators check a school bus that crushed a car after a chain reaction crash in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard the bus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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An investigator checks a school bus that crashed in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard the bus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Highway patrol investigators investigate the scene after a school bus into several cars in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard the bus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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A car is wedged under a school bus that crashed in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard the bus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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In this photo made on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, the Norwin School Distict Superintendent of Schools, William H. Kerr talks about materials being considered in use in the development of a curriculum for educating students in the district about opioid drug addiction at his office in North Huntindon, Pa. Schools across the country are teaching children as young as grade school about opioids as the nation's deadly drug crisis rages on. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, the Norwin School Distict Superintendent of Schools, William H. Kerr talks about materials being considered in use in the development of a curriculum for educating students in the district about opioid drug addiction at his office in North Huntindon, Pa. Schools across the country are teaching children as young as grade school about opioids as the nation's deadly drug crisis rages on. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, the Norwin School Distict Superintendent of Schools, William H. Kerr talks about the development of a curriculum for educating students in the district about opioid drug addiction at his office in North Huntindon, Pa. Schools across the country are teaching children as young as grade school about opioids as the nation's deadly drug crisis rages on. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, the Norwin School Distict Superintendent of Schools, William H. Kerr shows materials being considered in use in the development of a curriculum for educating students in the district about opioid drug addiction at his office in North Huntindon, Pa. Schools across the country are teaching children as young as grade school about opioids as the nation's deadly drug crisis rages on. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, the Norwin School Distict Superintendent of Schools, William H. Kerr shows materials being considered in use in the development of a curriculum for educating students in the district about opioid drug addiction at his office in North Huntindon, Pa. Schools across the country are teaching children as young as grade school about opioids as the nation's deadly drug crisis rages on. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, file photo, Oxford High School student Kwon Alexander dons an LSU cap signifying his intent to attend and play football there during a news conference on national signing day at Oxford High School in Oxford, Ala. The first Wednesday of February in college football has become a celebration of hat-picking suspense and hopeful speculation. Now the relatively new phenomena of national signing day as a spectacle could be heading toward extinction with the likely introduction of early signing period. Wednesday’s signing day will mark the end of an era. (Tamika Moore/AL.com via AP, File)
