Education

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President Barack Obama walks with John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, at the White House in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2014, before the president and first lady Michelle Obama boarded the Marine One helicopter to start a trip to Miami, Florida to visit Coral Reef High School. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Kendall Clark, a sophomore at the Park School of Baltimore, gets an autograph from Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons at a White House panel on STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) studies on Oct. 28. Kendall is one of the first students selected for the Spirit of Ramanujan Initiative, a global mentoring program for young mathematicians. Mr. Irons stars in a new film about Srinivasa Ramanujan, titled "The Man Who Knew Infinity." Photo by Julia Porterfield / The Washington Times

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Officials at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach, New York, have canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted "Trump" and repeated "negative rhetoric about minorities," according to the school principal. (WABC)

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In this Sept. 29, 2016 photo, Industrial arts teacher Jon Welch right, works with Oakland High School student Jared Smith on a birdhouse project at the school in Oakland, Ill. Welch has helped the Oakland school district rebuild its industrial arts program this fall after the program was on hiatus last year. Students in the industrial arts classes are now working on hands-on projects ranging from building birdhouses to constructing scaled-down modular home sections. (Rob Stroud/Journal Gazette via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2014, file photo, students and faculty say the Pledge of Allegiance during an assembly at the Crystal Boarding School in Crystal, N.M. on the Navajo Nation. The school is one of 183 for Native American students run by the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Education. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, named Tony Dearman, who is Cherokee, to head the Bureau of Indian Education, a division of the U.S. Interior Department that has oversight of nearly 200 schools in some 20 states. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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In this Oct. 14, 2016 photo, Idaho Falls School District 91 baker Teresa Young and assistant baker Stepheny Hall make cookies at Idaho Falls High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Young and Hall bake a variety of baked goods for a constantly changing school menu. (Taylor Carpenter/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)

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Kara Kelley, a geometry teacher at Portsmouth High School, has been removed from the classroom after she was seen in a video dancing to the song, "*&%$ Donald Trump," while dressed as the Republican presidential nominee. (WFXT)

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Logan Harris poses with his dad James at Torrington High School's practice field on Oct. 11, 2016, in Torrington, Wyo. Logan, a linebackher headed to the University of Wyoming after high school, has become closer to his father during his fight with cancer. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune via AP)

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Chicago Public Schools canceled an elementary school's haunted house after learning that the organizer of the event, Tyrone Tappler Productions, had reportedly planned a depiction of the Pulse nightclub terror attack in Orlando that claimed 49 lives. (Tyrone Tappler Productions)

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, New Haven Superintendent of Schools Garth Harries, center, speaks at a Board of Education meeting at Hill Regional Career High School, in New Haven, Conn. After only slightly more than three years, and repeated clashes with members of the city's school board, Harries is stepping down Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. He lasted about as long as the average for superintendents in urban American districts, a turnover rate that has been on the rise in recent years. (Arnold Gold/New Haven Register via AP, File)

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Michigan linebacker Jabrill Peppers (5) celebrates after sacking Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke (14) during the second half of a college football game, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, in East Lansing, Mich. Michigan defeated Michigan State 32-23. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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FILE - In this photo taken Oct. 10, 2016, retired Washington state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, center, moderates a discussion about a measure on the ballot in November that would place an income tax on the highest earners who reside in Olympia to pay for a portion of first-year college or technical school expenses for all Olympia public high school graduates and GED recipients. Hunt supports the measure and Haley opposes it. (Steve Bloom/The Olympian via AP)

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Joelle Cooper, center, math teacher at Avella High School works with Morgan Tyler on a math problem on her laptop during class in Washington, Pa. Teachers at Avella, Burgettstown, Canon-McMillan and Carmichaels have offered up how they're reworking class time to help young pupils value their education and take it beyond the classroom. (Jim McNutt/Observer-Reporter via AP)

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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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FILE - In this May 27, 2016, file photo, Junction Elementary School substitute teacher Molly Goodman teaches an eighth-grade class at the school in Redding, Calif. California voters are deciding whether to approve $9 billion in bonds for school and community college construction projects _ a measure proponents say is necessary to fill a backlog of needed new buildings and renovations. (Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight via AP, File)