The nation’s two largest teacher unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, saying Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting.
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A month after the Scranton School District closed four sites over asbestos dangers, a principal, teacher and maintenance worker brought a federal class action alleging that the problem was known for years.
Read moreA 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to a raft of charges – including first-degree murder – in the deadly shooting at a Colorado STEM school in 2019 and faces life with the possibility of parole plus 407 ½ years when sentenced in May.
Read moreParents of three Damascus High School students in Maryland claim school officials ignored their sexual hazing — to which four indicted students have pleaded guilty — in part because the football team was on a 51-game winning streak and the defendant officials didn’t want to disrupt it, in Montgomery County Court.
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The Alaska Legislature’s failure to override the governor’s veto of a school bond debt reimbursement could lead to an increase in Anchorage property taxes, officials said.
Read moreA former student sued the Pine Bluff School District and its former principal Michael Nellums, claiming Nellums and school security guards sexually harassed at least 23 students, and “the number of victims could be in the hundreds,” in Jefferson County Court, Arkansas.
Read moreSix more former students sued The Glen Mills Schools for personal injuries, claiming staff members physically and sexually abused them there, in separate complaints in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
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As they try to address stubborn school segregation, many of the nation’s school districts confront a familiar obstacle: resistance from affluent, well-organized and mostly white parents to changes affecting their children’s classrooms.
Read moreA federal court in California ruled that a former school district superintendent and the former principal of a high school are not entitled to qualified immunity on a group of students’ Fourteenth Amendment, state-created danger claim relating to actions taken in response to “racist and derogatory” Instagram posts the students were associated with.
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Hundreds of teachers dressed in red descended Monday on the Virginia Capitol to support education funding bills totaling $2 billion over two years, which passed their first legislative hurdles.
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The Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday requiring public schools to include free menstrual products in their bathrooms.
Read moreA couple who say their daughter was expelled from a private Christian school for eating a rainbow birthday cake have taken their dispute to court alongside a defamation and invasion of privacy complaint filed Thursday against a prominent conservative magazine.
Read moreChico Unified School District joined a growing list of schools suing Juul Labs, claiming student vaping has led to increased student absences, expense for detectors, cameras, increased supervision and counseling and is “impeding learning;” it seeks punitive damages.
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Montana tax officials courted Supreme Court defeat Wednesday at a hearing where Justice Brett Kavanaugh traced the state’s ban on public funding of religious schools to “grotesque religious bigotry against Catholics.”
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While watching their students on the playground at lunchtime Tuesday, several teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles felt drops after an airplane flew overhead. It took a few seconds for them and their students to register that the liquid was accompanied by an overwhelming odor of jet fuel.
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While Virginia state courts were closed Friday in honor of Lee-Jackson Day, an alumni group filed a federal lawsuit challenging the removal of one of those Confederate generals from their high school’s name.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court ruled that a group of substitute teachers and other school employees are eligible for unemployment benefits during the summer sessions that “resemble other academic terms of the school year in terms of enrollment, staffing, budget, instructional program or other objective criteria.”
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A jetliner making an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday afternoon dumped fuel over a wide area of Los Angeles, including on an elementary school playground filled with children.
Read moreParents seek a restraining order against Academy Sports & Outdoors, of Clayton, Mo., claiming it sells poorly guarded guns and ammunition within 1,000 feet of a school their children attend, in Clay County Court.
Read moreFour more former residents of The Glen Mills (reform) Schools claim they were assaulted by staff members, and three say they were sexually assaulted by them, bringing to five the number of such lawsuits this week, in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
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