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Maryland head coach Brenda Frese directs her players in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Northwestern, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2016, file photo, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sings in the Conference Center at the morning session of the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. It’s typically an unquestioned honor to participate in the inauguration of an American president. This time, though, it’s different. The sharp divisions over Donald Trump’s election have politicians, celebrities and even high school students debating whether taking part in the inauguration is a political act that demonstrates support for the new president and his agenda or a nonpartisan tribute to democratic traditions and the peaceful transfer of power. (AP Photo/George Frey, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2016, file photo, construction continues for the Inauguration and swearing-in ceremonies for President-elect Donald Trump on the Capitol steps in Washington. It’s typically an unquestioned honor to participate in the inauguration of an American president. This time, though, it’s different. The sharp divisions over Donald Trump’s election have politicians, celebrities and even high school students debating whether taking part in the inauguration is a political act that demonstrates support for the new president and his agenda or a nonpartisan tribute to democratic traditions and the peaceful transfer of power. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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A young bus rider gets an escort through the cold after school in Marion, Ind., on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. ( Jeff Morehead/The Chronicle-Tribune via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JAN. 7 -8 - In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo, Trinity Catholic High School senior Clayton Wilson, right, and instructor David Kissel prepare for an afternoon instruction flight at Ocala Aviation at the Ocala International Airport in Ocala, Fla. Trinity Catholic students can get their private pilots license for a much cheaper cost through taking classes ground study classes through the hight school and flight training through Ocala Aviation. Wilson is expected to get his license before the end of the year. (Alan Youngblood/Star-Banner via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JAN. 7 -8 - In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo, instructor David Kissel, right, and Trinity Catholic High School senior Clayton Wilson go over the checklist as they prepare for an afternoon instruction flight at Ocala Aviation at the Ocala International Airport in Ocala, Fla. Trinity Catholic students can get their private pilots license for a much cheaper cost through taking classes ground study classes through the hight school and flight training through Ocala Aviation. Wilson is expected to get his license before the end of the year. (Alan Youngblood/Star-Banner via AP)
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FILE- This Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, shows an overview of an area on the Old Dominion University campus in Norfolk, Va. A woman who says Old Dominion University Police interrogated her for nearly eight hours before allowing her to get a medical exam to preserve evidence of her reported rape filed a federal lawsuit against the school on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (Rich Joseph-Facun/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File)
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Red McKee, with the maintenance and grounds department at Shenandoah University, applies salt and an abrasive to an icy sidewalk in front of the university's Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre on Friday morning Jan. 6, 2016, in Winchester, Va. About one to two inches of snow fell overnight in the area, closing schools and delaying some local business openings. (Ginger Perry /The Winchester Star via AP)
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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2013, file photo, Missouri plays Auburn during the second half of the Southeastern Conference NCAA college football championship game in Atlanta. The Georgia Dome, which in 1992 became the Atlanta Falcons' home, also has been home to Georgia State football, high school state championships, Peach Bowls and SEC championship games, two Super Bowls and three Final Fours, will make way for the new Mercedes Benz Stadium. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has removed a painting that showed a pig in a police uniform, one of hundreds of artworks on display at the Capitol and sponsored by a member of Congress. Joe Kasper, a spokesman for Hunter, says the lawmaker unscrewed the artwork from the display and returned it to the office of Missouri Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)
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In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has removed a painting that showed a pig in a police uniform, one of hundreds of artworks on display at the Capitol and sponsored by a member of Congress. Joe Kasper, a spokesman forHunter, says the lawmaker unscrewed the artwork from the display and returned it to the office of Missouri Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)
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Eric Grant takes his three-year-old daughter Makayla to preschool in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers are starting 2017 in a city pre-kindergarten program, launched this week alongside a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Teacher Patty Cronin helps three-year-old Makayla Grant open her package of cereal during preschool in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers are starting 2017 in a city pre-kindergarten program, launched this week alongside a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Eric Grant takes his three-year-old daughter Makayla to preschool in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers are starting 2017 in a city pre-kindergarten program, launched this week alongside a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Luke Eubanks enjoys a day off from school while sledding at Hyrum Gibbons Park in Logan, Utah, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Schools in Cache Valley were closed for the day after a snow storm. (Eli Lucero/The Herald Journal via AP)
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Snow falls in Bowling Green, Ky., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. School districts in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia either closed or called off classes as early as snow began falling there Thursday and more cancellations were planned Friday, including by school systems in central Alabama amid the threat of up to 3 inches of snow and sleet. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP)
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Lucinda Anderson, of Bowling Green, Ky., left, and her daughter Shaye Rabold, of Lexington, Ky., walk through Fountain Square Park to get to their car in Bowling Green on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. School districts in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia either closed or called off classes as early as snow began falling there Thursday and more cancellations were planned Friday, including by school systems in central Alabama amid the threat of up to 3 inches of snow and sleet. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP)
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Gov. Doug Burgum opens North Dakota's 65th legislative assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in front of a joint session of the legislature where he delivered the State of the State address, in Bismarck, N.D. Burgum touched on a number of topics in the address but a continuing theme was lifelong education. "Learning begins with humility. Everyone has something to teach us," he said. (Tom Stromme /The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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This Oct. 13, 2016 booking image released by the Hardin County Detention Center, shows Stephen Kyle Goodlett, the former principal of LaRue County,Ky. High School. Goodlett, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was indicted Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography, news outlets reported. He admitted to seizing students’ phones so that he could steal pornographic images from them and trade them online, investigators said. He was fired after his arrest in October. (Hardin County Detention Center via AP)
