Education

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is interviewed in her office at the Education Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. DeVos is distancing herself from earlier comments about the nation’s historically black colleges and universities being pioneers of school choice.In an interview with the Associated Press, she has acknowledged that in the past “racism was rampant and there were no choices” for African-Americans in higher education. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is interviewed in her office at the Education Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. DeVos is distancing herself from earlier comments about the nation’s historically black colleges and universities being pioneers of school choice.In an interview with the Associated Press, she has acknowledged that in the past “racism was rampant and there were no choices” for African-Americans in higher education. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Pre-med students from the Miami Medical Team and volunteers from area high schools help gut the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club Store, which flooded during rain storms this past weekend, in New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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An 8-foot camera-carrying balloon rises into the sky during a test launch at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday, Aug. 9,2017. A team from the University of Bridgeport and the University of Hartford conducted the test as part a project that will send cameras into the stratosphere to photograph this month's solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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An 8-foot camera-carrying balloon rises into the sky during a test launch at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, Aug. 9,2017. A team from the University of Bridgeport and the University of Hartford conducted the test as part a project that will send cameras into the stratosphere to photograph this month's solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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Students and faculty, including Stefan Keilich, center, a mechanical engineering student, prepare to test launch a camera-carrying balloon at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday, Aug. 9,2017. The team from the University of Bridgeport and the University of Hartford are part a project that will send cameras into the stratosphere to photograph this month's solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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Students and faculty, including Mark Iewicz, center, a mechanical engineering student, prepare to test launch a camera-carrying balloon at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday, Aug. 9,2017. The team from the University of Bridgeport and the University of Hartford are part a project that will send cameras into the stratosphere to photograph this month's solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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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)