Education

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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)

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Illustration on the pressures against the middle class by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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A sign at Rockville High School in Rockville. Md., declares that school is closed on Friday, May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

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In a Saturday, April 22, 2017, file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart, speaks during a Tea Party debate at Goochland High School in Goochland, Va. Stewart, an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump who narrowly lost a bid to be Virginia's GOP candidate for governor is now running for the U.S. Senate. Stewart announced his Senate candidacy Thursday, July 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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Can you pass this basic biology test? (Shutterstock)

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David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control in Washington, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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French President Emmanuel Macron. (Associated Press)

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An art piece called Untitled (Flag 2), flies on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kan., Wednesday, July 11, 2018. It is part of a series of flag pieces that have flown on the Lawrence campus in the last several months as part of a national art project. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)