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Supporters of the New York Dream Act were flustered as Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the weekend did away with plans for an Empire State policy to allow illegal immigrants to attend school on in-state tuition rates, which in turn led to a student hunger strike. (Associated Press)
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Zephyrhills High School is at the center of a privacy debate after the school started requiring students to be escorted by a supervisor during bathroom breaks. (ABC Action News)
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Seven-year-old Adam Stinnett was not allowed back into his classroom at Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School in Tennessee until his "high and tight" military-style haircut was removed. (Image: Fox 17, Nashville)
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Supporters of South Carolina State University protested at the state house last month against a proposal to temporarily close the storied school for a massive overhaul, then reopen it in 2017. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Afghan women have a long way to go before society accepts equal rights to education and to work, according to an inspector general's report to Congress. (Associated Press/File)
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Meet the family: Sen. Ted Cruz was joined by his wife, Heidi, and their two daughters, Catherine (left), 4, and Caroline, 6, at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, as he announced his campaign for president at the Christian college. (Associated Press)
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High school students walk into Loveland High School, past a sign at the entrance bearing the image of the school mascot, an American Indian, in Loveland, Colo., on Sept. 11, 2014. A bill up for its first hearing on March 23, 2015, in the Colorado House would require public schools with American Indian mascots or logos to get permission from a panel of nine Native Americans. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this Thursday, March 19, 2015 file photo, students work on an exercise in Jada Callahan's Intro to Sociology 101 college course at Middleton High School in Middleton, Wis. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Amber Arnold) ** FILE **
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Lexington High School is nixing plans for an "American Pride" dance theme in order to be more inclusive for all nationalities. (WHDH)
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President Obama high-fives Noah Gue, 6, of Montana during the second annual White House Student Film Festival. The filmmakers ranged in age from 6 to those on the cusp of graduating from high school. (Associated Press)
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FILE — In this Feb. 28, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the first White House Student Film Festival in the East Room at the White House in Washington. Student filmmakers pictured, Miles Pilchik, left, and Gabrielle Nafie, second right, second-graders, SciTech in New York, Kids; Kyle Weintraub, second left, seventh grade, from David Posnack Jewish Day School in Davie, Fla.; and Shelly Ortiz, high school senior at Metropolitan Arts Institute, from Phoenix, Ariz. Obama hosts the second annual student film festival on Friday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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In this Feb. 24, 2015 photo, Vivek Shah, a sophomore resident advisor at Vanderbilt University's Moore College, uses the computer printer in the lobby of the student housing complex in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) **FILE**
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among the women mentioned as potential candidates for U.N. secretary-general. (AP Photo)
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In this Dec. 7, 2012, file photo, novelist Stephen King speaks to creative writing students at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in Lowell, Mass. King says he still lives in Maine, and he insists that Gov. Paul LePage's claim that he has moved from the state is inaccurate. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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Author and conservative activist David Horowitz says there is a "disgusting" epidemic of anti-Semitism on campuses and that administrators are tolerating it. (Associated Press)
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In this undated photo provided by The Evergreen State College, newly-named school president George Bridges poses for a photo in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/The Evergreen State College, Karissa Carlson)
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Jewish children wear skull caps, or kippah, in their pre-kindergarten class at the Al & Sonny Gindi Barkai Yeshivah in Brooklyn, New York, on March 11, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this March 10, 2015, photo, University of Oklahoma President David Boren talks with the media before the start of a Board of Regents meeting in Oklahoma City. Many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities after their reputations are sullied by race-tainted incidents. Even with a school’s sometimes swift and hard action, episodes such as the racist chants by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma still surface. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
