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In this undated photo provided by Adelphi University, student Usman Anwar works at his campus job on Long Island, N.Y. Anwar said he skipped a trip home to Pakistan this summer because he worried he might not be allowed to re-enter the U.S. if he left. Like Anwar, some international students have remained in the U.S. because they worried about potential travel troubles, even if they aren't from majority Muslim countries in the government's travel ban rules. (Noelle Fiallo-Evans/Adelphi University via AP)
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U.S. Secretary Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson speaks during a a public forum Tuesday Aug. 8, 2017, that was held in the Cairo Junior/Senior High School Gymnasium in Cairo, Ill. (Richard Sitler/The Southern Illinoisan via AP)
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U.S. Secretary Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, right, accompanied by Cairo Mayor Tyrone Coleman, listens to questions during a a public forum Tuesday Aug. 8, 2017, at the Cairo Junior/Senior High School Gymnasium in Cairo, Ill. (Richard Sitler /The Southern Illinoisan via AP)
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Governor Roy Cooper started off his school supply drive at Pearsontown Elementary School in Durham, N. C., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, he was asking people to help teachers and students by donating supplies that will be distributed to schools across the state, they are especially in need of spiral notebooks, pencils, pens, paper. All the supplies will be accepted at all the State Employee Credit Union branch, and state and government offices from August 14 until September 8th. (Bernard Thomas /The Herald-Sun via AP)
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FILE - In this May 27, 2014, file photo David Binkle, director of food services at Los Angeles Unified School District, speaks during a meeting with school leaders and experts during an event in Washington. Prosecutors have charged Binkle, the former food director at the nation's second-largest school district with embezzling, perjury and misuse of public funds. Binkle was expected to be arraigned Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Los Angeles Superior Court on 15 felony counts. Prosecutors say Binkle funneled $65,000 from the Los Angeles Unified School District to a culinary club he ran and to his own bank account. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) poses for pictures before practice at NFL football training camp, at Centennial High School on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 in Franklin, Tenn. (George Walker IV//The Tennessean via AP)
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FILE – This May 12, 2017, file photo shows the Carson School, an elementary school in Cincinnati. A federal lawsuit says a "treacherous school environment" that allowed and covered up bullying led to the suicide of an 8-year-old Ohio boy.The wrongful death suit filed Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, by the parents of Gabriel Taye names officials at his elementary school and at the Cincinnati Public Schools district as defendants. (AP Photo/Lisa Cornwell, File)
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In this Friday, July 28, 2017 photo, Ricardo Zubiate, Assistant Director of Facilities Services for the Salt Lake City School District, talks about the goats that provide an alternative to mowing and herbicides to get rid of grass at Washington Elementary School in Salt Lake City. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)
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In this Feb. 24, 2016 photo, Randy Gamel is photographed at Maudrie M. Walton Elementary in Fort Worth, Texas. Gamel, a retiree who moved with his husband to a tiny western Oklahoma town alleges he was routinely harassed by townspeople, but was ignored by law enforcement until his home was burned. Gamel acknowledges that before moving to Oklahoma, his criticism of staff and teachers at his son's Fort Worth elementary school became so heated that district officials prohibited him last year from visiting the school. He filed a lawsuit Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, that suggests he was targeted in part because he and his partner brought a black child into the nearly all-white town of Hitchcock, Okla. (Khampha Bouaphanh/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) **FILE**
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This Aug. 1, 2017, photo shows the CENTRO admissions/welcome center on the campus of Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. (Sam Upshaw Jr./The Courier-Journal via AP)
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Penn State running back Saquon Barkley runs a drill during NCAA college football practice Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in State College, Pa. (Joe Hermitt/PennLive.com via AP)
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Penn State running back Saquon Barkley runs a drill during media day NCAA college football practice Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in State College, Pa. (Phoebe Sheehan/Centre Daily Times via AP)
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Penn State running back Saquon Barkley runs a drill during NCAA college football practice Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in State College, Pa. (Joe Hermitt/PennLive.com via AP)
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FILE - In this June 19, 1985 file photo, Texas Gov. Mark White gestures while speaking before the environment and public works in Washington. Former Texas Gov. Mark White, a Democrat who championed public education reforms, including the landmark "no-pass, no-play" policy for high school athletes, has died, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. He was 77. (AP Photo/Lana Harris, File)
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This photo provided by Montgomery Co Police shows John Vigna. The former Maryland elementary school teacher is facing sentencing after being convicted of child sexual abuse charges involving inappropriate touching of several students.Sentencing, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 for Vigna follows his conviction in June on four counts of sex abuse of a minor and five counts of third-degree sex offense. (Montgomery Co Police via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 27, 2017, photo, Cheryl Bast, left, is accompanied by her daughter Liz Pierson, as she works on an application for a position with Omaha Public Schools, during a job fair held at Omaha South High School in Omaha, Neb. On Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, the U.S. government issues the July jobs report. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by Wayne State University shows university police officer Collin Rose, who died after being shot in the head while on patrol near a university campus in Detroit on Nov. 22, 2016. Authorities on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, charged Raymond Durham with first-degree murder in Rose's death. (Wayne State University via AP, File)
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FILE - In this March 31, 2017, file photo, students board a school bus after class at Columbus Elementary School in Columbus, N.M. A high-stakes legal battle focused on the plight of New Mexico's most vulnerable public school students is headed toward an end. After two months of testimony, a state district court judge may reshape the way public schools are funded and guided by the state. Testimony is scheduled to end Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
