A federal lawsuit filed by more than two dozen parents of students enrolled in the Jackson Public School District accuses Mississippi education officials of planning an unconstitutional state takeover of the district without any community input.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District board president was charged Wednesday with giving almost $25,000 to his first school board campaign and filing campaign finance reports that made it look like the funds came from legitimate donors, according to county prosecutors.
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An abusive lockdown drill in which a masked man threatened a middle-school classroom with a hammer left the entire class in tears and at least one girl with post-traumatic stress disorder, her parents say in court.
Read moreIllinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bipartisan education bill Thursday that will revamp the way the state funds public schools, ending his standoff with the Legislature over the so-called bailout of Chicago schools.
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Parents of an autistic child sued a Texas school district this week, claiming that when he resisted a teacher’s efforts to “save” him through religion, she falsely reported him for making a terrorist threat and got him thrown in jail.
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An Arizona law that shuttered Mexican-American studies classes in the Tucson Unified School District was “motivated by a desire to advance a political agenda by capitalizing on race-based fears,” a federal judge ruled late Tuesday.
Read moreA Connecticut woman who was paralyzed by a tick bite in China is entitled to a $41.7 million damages award from the school that organized her field trip, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe bar exam is a poor measure of a lawyer’s competence, law school deans told California State Bar officials on Tuesday at a public comment session regarding whether to adopt a lower passing score.
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Support for opening more charter schools has dropped significantly among Americans, but there’s less opposition to expanding private school voucher programs, as the Trump administration continues its push for school choice, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Read moreChicago parents sued the Illinois Board of Education on Thursday over the ongoing school funding crisis, as state lawmakers face another showdown with Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed Beverly Hills Unified School District’s request to block LA Metro’s plan to extend a subway under Beverly Hills High School.
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LOS ANGELES (CN) – Once praised by former first lady Michelle Obama for introducing healthier school meals, a former Los
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Six white high school girls who posted a photo on social media that some interpreted as support for the Ku Klux Klan sued their school district for defamation after school officials opened an investigation into the matter.
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Parents of a third-grader who hanged himself two days after being assaulted in a school restroom sued the Cincinnati Board of Education and its administrators Monday.
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A federal judge said Thursday that a Bay Area high school may have been within its rights to discipline students who liked and commented on racists images posted to a private Instagram account, although he expressed doubts over the severity of the punishments.
Read moreA high-functioning autistic high school student who had been trained to leave class and walk around when he was upset, with permission from the school, was Tasered in school by a Pierce County sheriff’s officer as he did so, his parents claim in Federal Court.
Read moreA divided Missouri appeals court ruled that a Kansas City teenager who was born a girl but has been living as a boy since age 9 is not allowed to use the boys’ locker rooms and restrooms at his school.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the mother of an autistic child twice left behind on his school bus, but gave her leave to re-file her lawsuit.
Read moreThe $200 million lawsuit filed by Los Angeles Unified School District may go to trial, rather than arbitration, against at least one of 27 insurance companies the district accused of not paying claims from the Miramonte sex-abuse scandal, a state appeals court ruled.
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A 12-year-old claims he was arrested during school, suspended for 10 days, and recommended for expulsion because of two Instagram posts related to the “scary clown craze” that made headlines in fall 2016.
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