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The Fort Worth Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday night to terminate the contract of teacher Georgia Clark after she complained to President Trump on Twitter about the undocumented students attending her school. (CBS DFW)
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Preparing Students for the Work Place Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Littlestown Senior High School in Pennsylvania has apologized after two students saw their pro-President Trump hats censored from the yearbook. (FOX 43)
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College Admissions Scandal Illustration by Donna Grethen
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College Board President David Coleman attends an announcement event, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Austin, Texas where College Board officials announced updates for the SAT college entrance exam, the first since 2005, needed to make the exam a better representative of what students study in high school and the skills they need to succeed in college and afterward. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **
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In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. While they keep their selection formulas under wraps, Ivy League colleges defend race-conscious approaches that contributed to a 17 percent increase in nonwhite students over a recent five-year span. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pauses while speaking about his time as a student at College of the Holy Cross after receiving an honorary degree from the college, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Hundreds crowd into the Fremont High School auditorium on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in Fremont, Neb., to attend a public hearing on a plan that would outlaw renting housing to or hiring illegal immigrants in this city of 25,000. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 photo, transitional kindergarten teacher Amy Weisberg helps a young student at Topanga Charter Elementary School in the Topanga district of Los Angeles. A California law requires public schools to add a grade level this fall designed to give the very youngest students a boost when they enroll in kindergarten, but charter schools say the law does not apply to them, pitting them against the state Department of Education. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Student prance and chant in a "fetus graveyard" in support of Planned Parenthood at the University of Texas-San Antonio, April 9, 2019. (Image: YouTube, Students for Life)
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FILE - In this April 11, 2017 file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is seen in the State Department Library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. How to spot a troubled school and how to help it? What does it mean to be a good student? What should report cards look like? These are some of the questions states are grappling with as they are working to submit blueprints of how they will implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, a landmark education law meant to help struggling schools. The law allows states greater flexibility in dealing with low performing schools, but the flexibility also comes with the risk or doing too little, too much or too differently. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Dmitri Moua, a suburban St. Paul high school junior, accused the Minnesota State High School League, the state’s official athletics governing board, of sex discrimination in a lawsuit filed last summer, saying he could not join the girl’s dance team because it did not allow for boys to compete. Another high school junior joined the lawsuit, and this month, after winning an injunction from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the MSHSL announced it would allow for any boy who wishes to compete in dance the opportunity to do so beginning in the fall of 2019. (photo courtesy of Pacific Legal Foundation)
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Illustration on pick and choose Christianity by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Freshman Liuxu Yang, of China, right, follows graduate student Cao Ou, of China, on a tour of the Syracuse University campus in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli) **FILE**
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"To all the countries of the former Soviet Union — look at us, everything is possible," said Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his victory speech. On TV, Mr. Zelenskiy portrays a teacher who denounces corruption and becomes president. (Associated Press)
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President Trump (AP)
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A member of the Jefferson County, Colo., Sheriffs Department stands guard outside the main driveway to Columbine High School Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Littleton, Colo. Students were kept inside the building as a large police response was summoned because a caller claimed to have placed explosive devices in the school and was hiding outside with a weapon. The call was determined to be false. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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The Alliance Defending Freedom slammed Yale Law School's policy that ends funding for fellowships with organizations that refuse to hire LGBTQ students. The group says the rule violates the religious freedom of organizations with traditional values. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Aisha Tyler pursued an early interest in comedy at McAteer High School in San Francisco, which had a special program called School of the Arts, now named Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. Tyler attended high school with Sam Rockwell, and Margaret Cho. Tyler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1992. She was a member of The Tabard, a co-ed fraternity. At Dartmouth, she co-founded and sang in the Dartmouth Rockapellas, an all-female a cappella group devoted to spreading social awareness through song
