Civil rights groups ask feds to look into Texas takeover of Houston schools
Of 15 school districts the Texas Education Agency has taken control of or threatened to, all but one was majority-Black or Latino, the groups told the Justice Department.
Child sex abuse cover-up
BROOKLYN — A federal court in New York allowed Child Victim Act claims to proceed against a prep school, its former headmaster and a former coach for allegedly conspiring to cover up the sexual abuse of a group of men who had attended the school between 1966 and 1991. The officials’ arguments against the law’s constitutionality are unavailing.
Federal court blocks pair of Indiana laws opposed by teachers unions
The laws would have required teachers and schools to adhere to stricter procedures to authorize the deduction of union dues from a teacher’s paycheck.
