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Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico calls to her team during the first half of its NCAA college basketball game against Maryland, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Maryland's Brionna Jones, right, shoots as Michigan's Jillian Dunston defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in College Park, Md.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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A pool of water fills the parking lot in front of Estancia High School in Costa Mesa, Calif., after rain storm, Thursday morning, Jan. 19, 2017. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP)
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Jerry Bender, of the Association of Washington School Principals, speaks during a Senate hearing, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state lawmakers are reintroducing a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media. Bender spoke in opposition to the measure. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Mike Hiestand, a staff attorney with the Student Press Law Center, holds a copy of his book, Law of the Student Press, as he speaks during a Senate hearing, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state lawmakers are reintroducing a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media. Hiestand spoke in favor of the measure. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Jaxon Owens, 17, left, editor-in-chief of the Viking Vanguard student newspaper at Puyallup High School, walks to speak during a Senate hearing, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state lawmakers are reintroducing a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media. Owens spoke in favor of the measure. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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High school student journalists and other supporters sit in the front row of a Senate hearing, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. as they wait to hear testimony related to the reintroduction of a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, right, listens to testimony during a Senate hearing at the Capitol Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Olympia, Wash. Fain is reintroducing a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Jaxon Owens, 17, right, editor-in-chief of the Viking Vanguard student newspaper at Puyallup High School, speaks during a Senate hearing at the Capitol Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Olympia, Wash. Washington state lawmakers are reintroducing a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media. Owens spoke in favor of the measure. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, JAN. 22, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Illinois Wesleyan University physics professor Gabe Spalding describes how students in his class use lasers, programmable cameras, mirrors and optics to develop devices in a campus lab for his "Momentum of the Photon" class, in Bloomington, Ill. The research being done by Spalding, has potential down-to-earth applications, from helping doctors see inaccessible parts of the body to helping motorists see through fog. (Steve Smedley/The Pantagraph via AP)
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Yousef Bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Associated Press/File)
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Boston College forward Nik Popovic (21) reaches out to Virginia forward Isaiah Wilkins (21), who recovers a turnover during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Boston, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
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Education Quality Harmed by the Teachers Union Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Arizona state Rep. Bob Thorpe, R-Flagstaff, speaks on the House floor at the Arizona Capitol Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Phoenix. Thorpe proposed House Bill 2119, which will not get a committee hearing, as the bill was set to penalize colleges and universities that teach "ethnic studies" classes, and targets these Arizona schools from granting in-state tuition to immigrants granted deferred deportation under an Obama Administration policy. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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FILE - This July 7, 2011 file photo shows signs at the head of the Wapiti Trail in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., warning away visitors after a bear earlier mauled a man to death a mile and a half up the trail. Kids in remote schools in grizzly bear territory might need protection from the animals, so Donald Trump's choice to run the education department, Betsy DeVos, thinks it could be appropriate for teachers and administrators there to carry guns. Grizzlies in growing numbers roam a wide area around a tiny elementary school in Wapiti, Wyo., which has a tall fence to keep the carnivores off the playground. (AP Photo/Matt Volz, File)
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FILE - This July 6, 2011, file photo shows a grizzly bear roaming near Beaver Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Kids in remote schools in grizzly bear territory might need protection from the animals, so Donald Trump's choice to run the education department, Betsy DeVos, thinks it could be appropriate for teachers and administrators there to carry guns.(AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)
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Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Rebecca Rhett, a kindergarten teacher at Overbrook Elementary in West Virginia, found out she may be out of a job after the Kanawha County School District announced layoffs by having teachers draw numbers from a hat. (WSAZ)
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From left, Montana state Sen. Keith Regier, Rep. Dave Fern and House Speaker Austin Knudsen listen to a delegation of Orthodox Jewish rabbis from the U.S. and Canada Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Helena, Mont. The rabbis say they plan to counter white supremacist threats against the Jewish community in Whitefish, Mont., by sending students to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and by sending the first five books of the Torah to every Jewish family in the state. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)
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Students line the driveway with banners and flags during a send-off for the marching band at Palmetto Ridge High School on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. The band will march in the inauguration parade for President-elect Donald Trump in Washington D.C. on January 20. (Nicole Raucheisen/Naples Daily News via AP)
