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Abe Noe-Hays, director of research at the Vermont-based Rich Earth Institute describes the filtration system he helped develop to turn urine into fertilizer at the University of Michigan engineering building, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Engineering researchers at the school are leading the effort that received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Parents, students and administrators take part in a rally in support of school choice, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Past voucher programs seeking to provide public money to families who send their children to private and religious schools have sailed through the state Senate but fizzled in the House, where lawmakers from both parties worry about hurting rural classrooms, but rally organizers are hoping that added political pressure could change that this session. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Women in pink caps look on as a women's march of tens of thousands begins to pass Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Seattle. Women across the Pacific Northwest marched in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington and to send a message in support of women's rights and other causes. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Wearing his high school jacket, state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, urges lawmakers to approve the nomination of Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., as the state's new attorney general, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Glazer was a couple of classes ahead of Becerra while they both attended Sacramento's C.K. McClatchy High School in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Choice to Protect Students Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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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 said policies advocated by Gov Susana Martinez must be enacted or the state's high school graduation rates could fall after hitting record levels. Skandera told The Associated Press lawmakers should pass the governor's third-grade retention proposal in order to halt future high school students from dropping out. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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Students inspect their badly damaged university, recently liberated from Islamic State militants on the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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Maryland's Brionna Jones, right, and Rutgers Jordan Wallace fight for a rebound during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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The damaged blinds in the windows of William Carey University's School of Business are seen in Hattiesburg, Miss., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, following the morning tornado that tore through the campus. The school and the neighboring community were hit by a morning twister that killed several people as roofs were ripped from homes and churches, and trees were torn from the earth. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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A young woman posts the Christian Flag that flies in another part of the William Carey University campus in Hattiesburg, Miss., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, as the students, faculty, school officials and parents begin to clear out. The school and the neighboring community was hit by a morning twister that killed several people as roofs were ripped from homes and churches, and trees were torn from the earth. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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The William Carey University's School of Business is damaged in Hattiesburg, Miss., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, following the morning tornado that tore through the campus. The school and the neighboring community were hit by a morning twister that killed several people as roofs were ripped from homes and churches, and trees were torn from the earth. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto holds a news conference on the bus accident of Hungarian students in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. In the early hours a coach carrying students of Szinyeri Merse Pal Grammar School of Budapest returning home from a ski holiday in France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona, northern Italy. More then a dozen students died and nearly fourty suffered injuries. (Janos Marjai/MTI via AP)
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A black flag waves at the entrance of Szinyeri Merse Pal Grammar School in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. In the early hours a coach carrying the school's students returning home from a ski holiday in France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona, northern Italy. More then a dozen students died and nearly fourty suffered injuries. (Janos Marjai/MTI via AP)
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Flames engulf a bus that crashed near Verona, northern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Police say 16 people have died when the bus carrying Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona. Thirty-nine people survived. The bus was returning to Budapest with students ages 15 to 17. (Lanfranco Fossa' via AP)
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A relative of one of the students involved in Saturday's bus crash talks to media in Verona, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Police say 16 people died when a bus of Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona. Thirty-nine people survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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Pe' ter Ha' mori, father of one of the students involved in bus crash, talks to media in Verona, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Police say 16 people died when a bus of Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona. Thirty-nine people survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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Flames engulf a bus that crashed near Verona, northern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Police say 16 people have died when the bus carrying Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona. Thirty-nine people survived. The bus was returning to Budapest with students ages 15 to 17. (Lanfranco Fossa' via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, file photo, Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo delivers her State of the State address to lawmakers and guests in the House Chamber at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I. Raimondo proposed giving in-state residents two years of free tuition at the state's public colleges. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Blake Harris, a senior high school point guard from the Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina, is introduced next to Harry the Washington mascot during a timeout in an NCAA college basketball game between Washington and Utah, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Seattle. Harris has signed a letter of intent to play for Washington next year.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Auburn's Austin Wiley (50) dunks during an NCAA college basketball game against Alabama on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Auburn, Ala. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
