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FILE - In this Thursday, May 16, 2013 file photo, Arizona State Sen. Rich Crandall, R-Mesa, speaks at the Capitol in Phoenix. The former state senator who headed Wyoming’s education department before a court reinstated that state’s school superintendent says he’s returning home to Arizona. Crandall was chosen for the Wyoming job by Gov. Matt Mead in the summer of 2013 but left in April 2014 after the state’s ousted superintendent claimed her job back. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
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In this April 18, 2014 photo, students at North Thurston High School in Olympia, Wash., enter temporary classrooms in a cluster next to the main school building. An Associated Press analysis of Washington school enrollment data shows 136 school districts, out of 295, added students between the 2011-12 school year and the current academic year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this April 18, 2014 file photo, students crowd into a classroom at North Thurston High School in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**
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In this April 18, 2014 photo, Annette Wells, right, leads a discussion in her 7th-8th grade language arts class at Komachin Middle School in Lacey, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **
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In this April 18, 2014 photo, students in Annette Wells' 7th-8th grade language arts class at Komachin Middle School in Lacey, Wash. are reflected in a mirror. Wells has switched from desks to tables due to the number of students she needs to fit in her classroom. An Associated Press analysis of Washington school enrollment data shows 136 school districts, out of 295, added students between the 2011-12 school year and the current academic year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this April 18, 2014 photo, students in a fourth-grade classroom at Olympic View Elementary School in Lacey, Wash. use upright file folders to shield their papers in crowded desk clusters during an exam. An Associated Press analysis of Washington school enrollment data shows 136 school districts, out of 295, added students between the 2011-12 school year and the current academic year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this April 18, 2014 photo, arrows in the floor help direct foot traffic flow as students at North Thurston High School in Olympia, Wash. move into a lunch period. An Associated Press analysis of Washington school enrollment data shows 136 school districts, out of 295, added students between the 2011-12 school year and the current academic year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this April 18, 2014 photo, students at North Thurston High School in Olympia, Wash. fill nearly every available seat during a lunch period, which has 700 students scheduled but only seating for 240. An Associated Press analysis of Washington school enrollment data shows 136 school districts, out of 295, added students between the 2011-12 school year and the current academic year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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**FILE** In this April 18, 2014, photo, Annette Wells, center, takes questions in her seventh-eighth grade language arts class at Komachin Middle School in Lacey, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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This March 30, 2014, photo, University of Florida graduate student Rachel Sanford works with samples of mysterious sea creatures called comb jellies in a unique floating laboratory, sailing off the coast of Florida. (AP Photo/Suzette Laboy)
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In this March 29, 2014, photo, University of Florida neurobiologist Leonid Moroz and graduate students Emily Dabe, center, and Gabrielle Winters examine an invertebrate species they caught by net in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida. Moroz is on a quest to decode the genomic blueprints of fragile marine creatures in real time _ on board the ship where they were caught. (AP Photo/Lauran Neergaard)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, APRIL 27 - In this photo taken on Aug. 31, 2012, fans fill the stadium for the Harvest Bowl high school football game between Wahpeton and Breckenridge in Wahpeton, N.D. Wahpeton, N.D., and Breckenridge, Minn., High Schools have a long-standing tradition of meeting up each season for a hard-nosed game of football. But now this late-August, early-September classic is in jeopardy. (AP Photo/The Daily News)