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Kary Moss, Executive Director of the ACLU of Michigan, speaks at the Saints of God Church Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, in Flint, Mich. Several families have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Michigan and the Flint school district, saying more needs to be done to help students whose academic performance and behavior have worsened since drinking the city's lead-tainted water. (Mark Felix/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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Robert Todd Wiley, 63, a New Hampshire English teacher alleged to have asked for sexually inappropriate images from a 16 year old student. Image from a screen capture of a NECN news story about the arrest. [http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Police-NH-High-School-Teacher-Solicited-Naked-Photos-From-Student-Merrimack-Robert-Todd-Wiley-397347561.html]
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Education Savings Plans Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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University of Michigan NCAA college football head coach Jim Harbaugh smiles as he carries the down marker on the sideline during the game between El Cerrito and St. Mary's High at St. Mary's High School in Albany, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. Harbaugh spent Michigan's weekend off working the chains at a high school game. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
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Unbiversity of Michigan NCAA college football head coach Jim Harbaugh, left, holds the down marker on the sideline during the game between El Cerrito and St. Mary's High at St. Mary's High School in Albany, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. Harbaugh spent Michigan's weekend off working the chains at a high school football game in California. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
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President Barack Obama speaks to students, teachers and invited guests at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, to highlight the progress his administration has made over the last eight years to improve education across the country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, OCT. 15-16 - In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 photo, Jenny Goff, right, reaches out to Kennedy Hodges, 10 months, while Luke Kelly, center, plays nearby, at Central Park Child Care Center in Vancouver, Wash. A recent national report by New America, a think tank in Washington, D.C., found that the average annual cost of full-time, center-based child care, $9,589 per child 4 years and younger, now exceeds the average annual cost of in-state college tuition. (Ariane Kunze/The Columbian via AP)
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In this Sept. 28, 2016 photo, students in the first drone business course at the University of North Dakota sit in front of a table of unmanned aircraft and listen to North Dakota State University researcher John Nowatzki talk about his project to use large drones for precision agriculture in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The class is teaching students first to fly drones and then develop a business plan that they will present to venture capitalists and executives. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, Aya Tal-mason gestures as she talks to a reporter, at Florida Atlantic University High School, in Boca Raton, Fla. Tal-mason described her research on cancer-fighting drugs. At tuition-free Florida Atlantic University High School, all students can simultaneously earn their high school diploma and bachelor’s degree. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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In this Oct. 12, 2016 photo, freshman student Sana Hamze speaks in Northfield, Vt., about her time as a "rook," or first year student in the military college's Corps of Cadets. Norwich University has allowed Hamze to wear her Muslim headscarf as part of her Norwich uniform. Hamze chose Norwich after another military school refused to change its uniform code to accommodate her request. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 photo, Kathleen Leitgeb, program director for the Fairbanks Denakkanaaga Road Scholar Program, stands in the Denakkanaaga Office at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitor Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. Leitgeb, the program director for the Fairbanks Denakkanaaga Road Scholar program, was born and raised in Chelsea, New York, and graduated from high school in the mid-60s with a less-than-stellar grade point average. (Erin Corneliussen /Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, OCT. 15 - In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 photo, Mason Jelken places the head on an animatronic monster as West Middle School students set up for a haunted house on Jackson Street in Sioux City, Iowa. (Jim Lee/Sioux City Journal via AP)
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In this Nov. 6, 2016, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown, with students and teachers behind him, talks about Proposition 30 after voting in Oakland, Calif. Now, with the sales tax set to expire at the end of this year and income taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year in 2019, the California Teachers Association and other labor unions want to keep the income taxes on the wealthy, which they say are again needed to “prevent $4 billion in cuts” to schools. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)
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In this Tuesday, April 7, 2015 photo, dancer Antonio Douthit, front, of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater teaches a group of high school students a sampling of modern dance choreography during class at the site of the Lincoln Public Schools Arts and Humanities Focus Program, in Lincoln, Neb. (Kristin Streff/The Journal-Star via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, OCT. 15-16 - In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, provided by Katie Basil, Bethel Regional High School swim coach Erika Andrews teaches swimming fundamentals to Kennedy Langlie, Alexie Leonard and Jordan Wheeler in Bethel, Alaska. Andrews is the first swim coach and is trying to build a swimming culture in Bethel, two years after the city's first pool opened. (Katie Basil/KYUK via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Wednesday Oct. 5, 2016, photo, Phoenix School students take measurements of the water quality of Deer Creek in Roseburg, Ore. During the past five years, Phoenix School students have worked to restore Deer Creek, removing invasive plant species and planting native species in the area through a $78,653 grant. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto speaks with U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., during the Nevada Senatorial Debate at Canyon Springs High School on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in North Las Vegas. The debate was televised statewide. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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Eneale Pickett, a second-year elementary education major at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has launched a clothing line featuring sweatshirts and hoodies that boast racial and anti-police statements. (WMTV)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Briar Woods High School, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
