Education

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In this Jan. 9, 2017, file photo, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten speaks about education at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) ** FILE **

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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, left, talks with W.J. Murphy Elementary School Principal Phil Georgia as he tours the flood damaged school in Round Lake, Ill., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald via AP)

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Flooding from heavy rains damaged the library at W.J. Murphy Elementary School in Round Lake, Ill. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner toured the flood damaged school on Wednesday. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald via AP)

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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as Ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as an ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as an ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as an ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as an ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Musician and actor Common visits the Renaissance School of the Arts as Ambassador for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Musician and actor Common and his mother Dr. Mahalia Hines visit the Renaissance School of the Arts as Ambassadors for AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington Stores on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in New York. Common will be fulfilling all the wish lists that teachers and faculty put together for the school's needs for the upcoming year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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A statue of Jesus was vandalized on the campus of Carlow University, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Thursday July 20, 2017. Officials at Carlow University are investigating who might have broken off the hands of the statue of Jesus on their Oakland campus. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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A statue of Jesus was vandalized on the campus of Carlow University, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Thursday July 20, 2017. Officials at Carlow University are investigating who might have broken off the hands of the statue of Jesus on their Oakland campus. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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A statue of Jesus was vandalized on the campus of Carlow University, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Thursday July 20, 2017. Officials at Carlow University are investigating who might have broken off the hands of the statue of Jesus on their Oakland campus. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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A vandelized statue of Jesus on the campus of Carlow University, a private Catholic university, is shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Pittsburgh. School officials announced the vandalism on Wednesday, but said it was unclear exactly when it occurred. Authorities are hoping surveillance video identifies whoever broke the hands off a granite statue. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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A vandelized statue of Jesus on the campus of Carlow University, a private Catholic university, is shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Pittsburgh. School officials announced the vandalism on Wednesday, but said it was unclear exactly when it occurred. Authorities are hoping surveillance video identifies whoever broke the hands off a granite statue. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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A vandelized statue of Jesus on the campus of Carlow University, a private Catholic university, is shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Pittsburgh. School officials announced the vandalism on Wednesday, but said it was unclear exactly when it occurred. Authorities are hoping surveillance video identifies whoever broke the hands off a granite statue. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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In this June 25, 2017, file photo, Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Smith told SiriusXM radio in an interview Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that she was a drug dealer when she first met Tupac Shakur in high school in Baltimore in the late 1980s. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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In this Tuesday, July 18, 2017 photo, Hector Daniel (also known as Daniel or Danny) Garnica's drama teacher Berta Cortes holds costume elephant ears her students wore in Black Mountain Elementary School's production of "The Jungle Book" in Flagstaff, Ariz. Daniel, who played the elephant leader, was killed, along with his siblings, parents and several members of his extended family, in a flash flood in a rocky canyon north of Phoenix while celebrating his mother's birthday on Saturday, July 15. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

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This June 27, 2017, photo shows the exterior of South Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Arconic says 20,000 square feet of Reynobond®ACM PE core was used for the metallic facade to differentiate the building entrances and science classrooms at the high school built in 2004. In sales brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the “stunning visual effect” its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan school and a 33-story hotel on Baltimore’s waterfront. Those same panels also were used in London’s Grenfell Tower. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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This June 27, 2017, photo shows the exterior of South Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Arconic says 20,000 square feet of Reynobond ®ACM PE core was used for the metallic facade to differentiate the building entrances and science classrooms at the high school built in 2004. In sales brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the “stunning visual effect” its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan school and a 33-story hotel on Baltimore’s waterfront. Those same panels _ Reynobond composite material with a polyethylene core _ also were used in the Grenfell Tower apartment building in London. Those same panels also were used in London’s Grenfell Tower. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)