Education

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FILE - in this June 5, 2018, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Preliminary data obtained by The Associated Press show the Trump administration is granting only partial loan forgiveness to the vast majority of students it approves for help because of fraud by for-profit colleges. The data demonstrate the impact of DeVos new policy of tiered relief, in which students swindled by for-profit schools are compensated based on their earnings after the program. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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A teacher at McNeil High School near Austin has been placed on paid leave after being accused of bullying a student because of his support for President Trump. (KVUE)

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The National Rifle Association has awarded over $600,000 in grants to support school security projects in 23 states, organized under the organization's School Shield program. (Image courtesy of NRA)

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Illustration on accusations of sexual misconduct on campuses by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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A new Democratic outreach on the nation's college campuses uses therapy dogs and puppies to persuade students to register to vote and head to the polls. (Screen grab from Pups at the Polls Pennsylvania video)

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Illustration on laws mandating RU-486 availability in State University Systems by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Tara Reed: Tara Reed, a nurse with the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, demonstrates how to stop apply a tourniquet for participants of a 'Stop the Bleed' training session in Annapolis last week. (Courtesy University of Maryland Medical System)

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Eric Harris, left, and Dylan Klebold, carrying a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, are pictured in the cafeteria at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, during their April 20, 1999, shooting rampage where they killed a teacher and 12 students. Both gunmen killed themselves later in the school library. This still image is from a videotape released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Jefferson County District Judge Brooke Jackson ordered the tapes released late last month, along with copies of law-enforcement radio transmissions. The releases were requested by the families of slain students Kelly Fleming and Daniel Rohrbough, who have sued the sheriff's office. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Department) ** FILE **

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations 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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A California high school student is facing battery charges after getting in a classroom altercation with another student who was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. (CBS13)

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"Field of Blood," a new book by Yale University scholar Joanne B. Freeman, chronicles the days when the U.S. Congress was a violent place. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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Long Cane Middle School in LaGrange, Georgia, has removed a President Trump display from an 8th-grade classroom after parents complained it promoted a political agenda. (WRBL)

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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)