A Texas school district has stumbled on the state’s post-Civil War history of leasing black prisoners to plantation owners, as its construction project turned up what archaeologists believe are the bones of prisoners-for-hire in an unmarked cemetery.
Read moreA shuttered online charter school fighting Ohio’s clawback of $80 million persuaded a state appeals court to remand its challenge of an administrative decision from the state school board that led to the loss in funding.
Read moreA Texas appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit brought by “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed, the black Muslim teenager arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that a teacher thought looked like a bomb, finding that he did not establish actual malice regarding statements made in the media about the incident.
Read moreIn the crucial first minutes after a gunman began shooting students and staff at a Florida high school, law enforcement’s response was hampered by quirks in the local 911 system that caused many calls from inside the school to be transferred, the chairman of a commission investigating the massacre said.
Read moreIn a tentative bench ruling Wednesday, a California judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit by parents claiming the Golden State has failed students when it comes to literacy – setting the stage for a trial in October 2019.
Read moreA Texas school district board has agreed to spend more than $1 million to fortify Santa Fe High School before students return in August in response to the recent shooting there that left 10 people dead.
Read moreThe student government candidate created a video depicting himself as James Bond rescuing a fellow classmate from two Muslim students who were forcing the classmate into a video game competition. Was that “inappropriate.”
Read moreRuling against a Missouri school district where black voters routinely see their preferred candidates defeated, the Eighth Circuit affirmed Tuesday that the at-large voting system dilutes minority votes.
Read moreFighting to resurrect their sexual harassment lawsuit, a Florida couple claimed in an 11th Circuit appeal Friday that a teacher who made lewd advances on their disabled son was allowed to continue to work around him at his high school, leading him to drop out of classes.
Read moreThe state’s highest court backed New York City health agencies on Thursday for mandating that children who attend city-regulated or school-based programs get a flu shot.
Read moreKansas lawmakers must find more funding for K-12 schools but have until June 2019 to do it, avoiding the risk of school closures, according to Monday’s state Supreme Court ruling.
Read moreChicago parents who say they helped turn around a failing elementary school in a black neighborhood are now fighting for its survival in court, asking a federal judge to stop the school district from shutting it down to make way for a new high school.
Read moreA city in southeastern Tennessee held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for the grand opening of a renovated museum dedicated to the Scopes “monkey trial,” the famous 1925 case that turned into a showdown over creationism and evolution.
Read moreA detailed lawsuit filed Thursday in New Jersey federal court claims the former headmaster of a prestigious Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a Brooklyn teenager who was living with him in the 1980s and helping around the house in exchange for free tuition.
Read moreA Pennsylvania school district struggled to persuade the Third Circuit on Monday that the student it kicked out after a disciplinary issue should not be considered homeless.
Read moreA Fifth Circuit panel listened Monday to arguments over why a Louisiana charter school with a mostly white student body should be allowed to stay open in a mostly black town without adhering to a decades-old federal desegregation order.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against a Kansas school district, claiming that it violated students’ free speech rights.
Read morePresident Donald Trump planned to meet Thursday with families of the victims of the Texas school shooting that left 10 people dead.
Read moreTexas Governor Greg Abbott released a plan to address school and firearm safety Wednesday, calling for a more robust law enforcement presence in schools, getting more teachers licensed to carry firearms, and conducting mental health evaluations to identify students at risk of harming others.
Read moreA high school senior is free to wear the T-shirt that got him suspended while his lawsuit alleging violation of his free speech rights proceeds, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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