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University of Oklahoma students march in protest to the University of Oklahoma's now-closed Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Members of SAE were caught on video chanting a racial slur. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a training workshop for the New Hampshire state Republican Party in the auditorium at Concord High School Saturday, March 14, 2015, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to students during a discussion on criminal justice reform at Bowie State University, in Bowie, Md., Friday, March 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **
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On March 10, University of Oklahoma President David Boren, above, announced the expulsion of 2 students after members of a fraternity were caught on video chanting a racial slur. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Parents helped students move their furniture out of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house at the University of Oklahoma on Monday, March. 9, 2015, in Norman, Okla. President David Boren of the University of Oklahoma severed the school's ties with a national fraternity on Monday and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered after several members took part in a racist chant caught in an online video. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
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Students move out of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house after University of Oklahoma president David Boren closed it down when several members were caught on video taking part in a racist chant. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
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Community High School junior Eliza Upton helps Ann Arbor Huron junior Tulin Babbitt get into a gown at a $20 prom dress sale at Huron High School, in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Friday, April 25, 2014. The annual Prom Dress Project offers dresses for girls at an affordable price. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Brianne Bowen)
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A former substitute teacher in Ohio has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after she was found guilty of showing students a graphic horror comedy movie during class. (Wikipedia)
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A 6-year-old Colorado boy named Elijah was suspended from Stratton Meadows Elementary School in Colorado Springs on Monday after he pointed his finger in the shape of a gun at another classmate and said, "You're dead." (KRDO)
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The "Gauchos" team at Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California, was reinstated to the Section Open Division playoffs on Tuesday after it was forced to forfeit its 57-52 semifinal win for what officials deemed a uniform violation. (FOX 11)
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The Georgetown University campus, Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Charter school advocates hold signs as they rally outside the state Capitol on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. An estimated 13,000 students, teachers and parents rallied to support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for more of the publicly funded, but privately run, schools. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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US First Lady Michelle Obama (C) performs "tai chi" with students from the Chengdu No7 High School in Chengdu in China's southwest Sichuan province on March 25, 2014. Michelle Obama arrived in China on March 20 with her mother and daughters to kick off a seven-day, three-city tour where she will focus on education and cultural exchange. AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS
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In this Friday, May 3, 2013, file photo, former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall stands as her attorney presents a motion at the Fulton County Superior Court hearing for several dozen Atlanta Public Schools educators facing charges alleging a conspiracy of cheating on the CRCT standardized tests in Atlanta. Hall, the former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools charged in what prosecutors had called a broad conspiracy to cheat on state exams, has died, her attorney said Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)
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"We object to Common Core because the federal government has no right imposing curriculum, imposing content standards in local classrooms when these decisions have always been made by local parents, by teachers, by local leaders," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told the CPAC conventiongoers, sparking applause from the crowd. (Associated Press)
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Louisiana Governor Bobbie Jindal was quick to denounce the Common Core education standards at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, saying that federal attempts to meddle in state education "must stop." (Rod Lamkey Jr. for The Washington Times)
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In this Feb. 11, 2015 photo, Chris Gernetzke, a seminarian from Evansville, Wis., adjusts his collar and cassock in his dorm room at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, in St. Paul, Minn. Faced with a surging number of seminarians, the Madison Catholic Diocese is turning to its parishioners to help fund the training of priests. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King)
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Maryland forward Evan Smotrycz looks for a teammate as he is pressured by Michigan players in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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People watch from above during a rally in the rotunda at the state Capitol for Home Educator’s Day in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
