Education

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CORRECTS STATE TO MISSISSIPPI - Derrick Johnson, left, president of the Mississippi NAACP, talks to the media on behalf of Stacey Payton, center right, and Hollis Payton, right, the parents of a high school student, in front of the Stone County Courthouse in Wiggins, Miss., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. Johnson is demanding a federal investigation after the parents said four white students put a noose around their son's neck at school. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

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Part of the Halloween decorations hangs at a home in Walla Walla, Wash., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. (Michael Lopez/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP)

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Stone County High School in Wiggins, Miss., is seen Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. The state NAACP says white students at Stone County High School threw a noose around the neck of a black student and "yanked backward". Ayana Kinnel, spokeswoman for the civil-rights group, says Monday that the incident took place the afternoon of Oct. 13 at the Stone County High School field house in Wiggins. The civil-rights group is calling on the school to expel the white students. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

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Patrons take keepsakes during a ceremony to dedicate the new Manhattanville campus of Columbia University on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, in New York. The university said it will officially open its new West Harlem campus next spring as part of a $6.3 billion project that will unfold over several decades. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, North Carolina State's Dennis Smith Jr. tosses a ball while being photographed during the NCAA college basketball team's media day in Raleigh, N.C. Smith enrolled early in January to focus on recovering from a serious knee injury suffered before his senior year of high school. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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In this Oct. 17, 2016 photo, a classroom desk sits inside an abandoned building at the former Mansfield Training School in Mansfield, Conn. Many buildings at the former mental institution, now part of the University of Connecticut's Depot Campus, remain as they were when the school took over the property in 1993. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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Britney Corbett oversees a ninth-grade math at Washington Leadership Academy in Northeast D.C. The Washington Teachers' Union, which represents public school teachers in the nation's capital and is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, has voiced support for charter school unions. (The Washington Times/File)

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Andre Agassi found enthusiasm for education from second-grade students at Rocketship Rise Academy in the District's Ward 8. (Julia Porterfield/The Washington Times)

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Shawn Sheehan, Oklahoma's 2016 Teacher of the Year, stands in his classroom in Norman, Okla., Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. A proposed 1 percent sales tax hike to fund public education and teacher pay raises is one of three state questions that were sent to Oklahoma's November ballot through the initiative petition process. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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The band plays on the field before an NCAA college football game between Ohio State and Penn State in State College, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)

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Maryland quarterback Perry Hills throws a pass in the first half in an NCAA college football game against Michigan State, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in College Park, Md.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)

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Maryland head coach DJ Durkin and quarterback Caleb Rowe celebrate a touchdown against Michigan State in the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

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Then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., listens as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at the Taylor Allderdice High School, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., listens as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at the Taylor Allderdice High School, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

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Rene Lopez mugshot, via the Sacramento Bee.

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This Sept. 9, 2016 photo shows Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Yale University will be accepting more undergraduate students this year, but don't expect it to be any easier to get in. Freshmen classes will be larger by about 200 students beginning next year under a long-planned expansion that will see the Ivy League college's student body grow by about 15 percent, to 6,200. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz) **FILE**

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In this Aug. 4, 2015 photo, an aerial photo shows the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Since 2009, efforts have been underway to reduced the university's energy costs. KU reduced energy use enough over the past year to meet — and exceed — its overall energy consumption goal, according to the university's most recent campus-wide energy report. (Nick Krug/The Lawrence Journal-World via AP)

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A large tree lays fallen on a house after high winds and heavy rain hit the area and neighborhood, south of Lock Haven, in Clinton County, Pa., Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Home owner Frank Dwyer, a well known retired school teacher and former principal, died in the incident. A series of storms hopscotched across western and central Pennsylvania overnight, turning roads into rivers, closing schools and damaging homes in communities as far as 150 miles apart. (Lana Muthler/The Express via AP)

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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2014 file photo, a university student is reflected in a glass display case showing the photos of 43 missing students from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, at the Central American University, UCA, in Managua, Nicaragua. Mexican authorities announced they detained on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 the former police chief of Iguala where the students disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014. The students were taken by police and have not been heard from since. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)