Education

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Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., questions Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Education on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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In this photo taken April 3, 2016, Corey Lewandowski talks to a member of the media at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Christina Greer, an associate professor at Fordham University in New York City, apologized Wednesday for making a "flippant" comment during an MSNBC appearance about slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts. (MSNBC)

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A tweet from President Donald Trump.

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In this Aug. 6, 2018, file photo, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., speaks during a roundtable discussion with education leaders from South Florida at the United Teachers of Dade headquarters in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

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Offensive linemen on the University of Maryland football team practice in College Park, Maryland, on Wednesday, August 15, 2018. (Photo by Adam Zielonka / The Washington Times)

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Illustration on Hungarian resistance to Islamic encroachment by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Maryland head coach DJ Durkin speaks with an official in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Michigan in College Park, Md., Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

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Cameron Kasky (center) is one of the student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School speaking out for gun control. His father and other parents of teens who were affected by the February shooting in Parkland, Florida, have formed the Families vs. Assault Rifles PAC to oppose candidates who don't support their goals. (Associated Press/File)

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Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School is dropping its morning recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance as an effort to be more inclusive for all students. (11Alive News)

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The Lodi Unified School District in California is taking steps to re-educate teachers on its student dress code after two sophomores were reportedly kicked out of their history class for wearing National Rifle Association T-shirts. (CBS 13 Sacramento)

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Levi Rodas, 16, and other students at Orem High School in Utah showed his support for gun rights in a rally this year, but gun control rallies at public schools across the nation generate much more attention. (Associated Press/File)

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David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks outside a Publix Supermarket in Coral Springs, Fla., Friday, May 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Terry Spencer) ** FILE **

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David Hogg, co-author of #NeverAgain, discusses the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during an interview in New York, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Fourteen students and three staff members were fatally shot and multiple others wounded during the school massacre, on Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a rally at Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender-neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama's directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district's 15 high schools already have gender-neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) **FILE**

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President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a rally at Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, moderates a panel, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, moderates a panel, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)