Education

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering at Hillsborough High School, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, in Hillsborough Township, N.J. Christie proposed redistributing billions of dollars in educational aid from the poorest districts to hundreds of other schools, taking aim at the state's highest-in-the nation property taxes and a 3-decade-old court requirement that saw several dozen towns get more money to address inequities. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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In this photo taken April 3, 2016, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at the time talked to a member of the media at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ** FILE **

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A Virginia school board decided Thursday not to expel a 7-year-old boy who was suspended for 10 days for bringing a squirt gun and a Nerf gun to school. (WAVY)

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A Virginia school board decided Thursday not to expel Josiah Green, a second-grader at Douglass Park Elementary, who was suspended for 10 days for bringing a squirt gun and a Nerf gun to school. (WAVY)

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A Maryland judge has upheld the 2013 suspension of a second-grader who chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and pretended to shoot classmates. (WJLA)

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Illustration on America's response to radical Islamic terrorism by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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I'm happy to use the term Islamic terrorists! (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Meade Middle School in Maryland. (Image: http://www.aacps.org/html/schol/Middle/Meadems.asp)

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Saint Anselm College Monday, June 13, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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College Monkey Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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This Feb. 13, 2007, file photo shows Ann Weaver Hart, then-president of Temple University in Philadelphia. She is now the current president of the University of Arizona. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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In this Aug. 29, 2013 file photo, students walk through the halls during an open house for incoming freshman and transfer students at a high school in Philadelphia. A new government survey released Thursday, June 9, 2016 finds a surprising drop in the proportion of high schools kids who are having sex. The survey found 41 percent said they had ever had sex, after it had been about 47 percent from a decade. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Mayte Lara Ibarra graduated from Crockett High School in Austin, Texas. The class valedictorian boasted on Twitter afterwards that she was "undocumented." (Twitter, Mayte Lara Ibarra)

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Donald Trump Illustration by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency

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FILE - In this April 19, 2016, file photo, Cleveland Browns' Robert Griffin III throws a pass during practice at the NFL football team's veteran minicamp in Berea, Ohio. The Browns quarterback posed as a mannequin on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, before surprising a high school team during a presentation by the NFL team. Griffin stood silently on stage in a helmet and full uniform before No. 10 lunged at two unsuspecting players from North Ridgeville High School. RG3 then pulled off his helmet to reveal his identity as the group roared. (AP Photo/David Dermer, File)

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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announces that he is calling the legislature into a special session to address school finance issues, Wednesday, June 8, 2016 in Topeka, Kan. Gov. Sam Brownback called a special session that will begin June 23 to respond to a state Supreme Court order last month. The court rejected changes in school finance laws made earlier this year. It warned that schools will not be able to open after June 30 unless legislators make the education funding system fairer to poor districts. (Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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The NBA has teamed up with Teespring and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), to offer officially licensed LBGT-friendly t-shirts. (Teespring screenshot)