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Fight Over Arkansas School Choice Law Hits Eighth Circuit
Lawyers for four Arkansas school districts argued Wednesday before the Eighth Circuit that they should continue to be exempt from a state law allowing minority students to attend schools outside their home district.
Read more15% Teacher Raises Doomed Sacramento City School Budget: Audit
A school district in California’s capital city is careening toward bankruptcy after it ignored warnings from county officials and approved ill-advised generous teacher raises, the state auditor announced Tuesday.
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Judge Tosses Suit by NY Anti-Vaxxers Alleging Religious Bias
Three months after health officials declared the end of a measles outbreak, the New York attorney general is celebrating the end of a lawsuit that cast the state’s vaccine mandate as religious discrimination.
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Police Shootings Raise Questions About Arming Teachers
As the country looks for ways to deal with mass shootings at schools, some have responded by saying more people should carry guns, including teachers.
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School’s Transgender Bathroom Rules Fought at 11th Circuit
An attorney for a transgender teenager asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to require a Florida school district to allow the teen to use the bathroom matching his gender identity.
Read moreColorado School Shooting Suspect to Be Tried as an Adult
A 16-year-old Colorado student accused of orchestrating the mass shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch this past May that left one student dead and eight others wounded will be charged as an adult, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreSchool Officials Argue for Immunity After Third-Grader’s Suicide
The principal and vice principal of a Cincinnati elementary school argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Wednesday that they are entitled to immunity from claims brought by the parents of a third-grader who killed himself after being bullied repeatedly.
Read moreWisconsin Officers on Front Lines in Two Student Shootings
Wisconsin high school resource officers have found themselves on the front lines in two student shootings in the past two days, underscoring how police in schools can face life-or-death situations and likely adding to the debate over the best ways to respond to school threats.
Read moreUS Scores Above Average in Reading, Science, Lags in Math
American students may not be reading any better, but they’re moving up in rankings of educational achievement worldwide because many of their peers in other countries are performing worse.
Read moreHigh School
Parents sued the Round Rock (Texas) Independent School District in federal court, claiming its co-defendant administrator and teacher exploited their daughter by using her anorexia nervosa the subject of a yearbook story about “mental illness.”
Read moreExcessive Force
Parents of an 11-year-old boy sued Maury County, Tenn., its public schools and sheriff’s department, claiming school resource officer Timothy Byrdsong assaulted their son on campus, in an incident that was caught on video.
Read moreJudge Considers Charging School Shooting Suspect as Adult
A 16-year-old Colorado student accused of orchestrating a mass shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch last May made his final plea Wednesday to be charged as a minor in the case.
Read moreSchool Expulsion
A father sued Cherry Creek High School administrators in federal court for expelling his son for posting on Snapchat, off campus, a photo of him and friends wearing funny hats, with the caption, “Me and the boys bout to exterminate the Jews.”
Read moreSouth LA Teen Arrested Over Threat of Mass School Shooting
A 13-year-old student who threatened to carry out a shooting at his South Los Angeles middle school had a list with the names of students and staff, a hand-drawn map of his school, and an AR-15 assault rifle at his home when he was arrested, police said Friday.
Read more‘Ghost Gun’ Used in Deadly LA-Area High School Shooting, Police Say
When 16-year-old Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow shot his classmates at Saugus High School in California on Nov. 14, he used a gun that was not made through conventional means and was not registered, law enforcement revealed Thursday.
Read moreAccused Colorado School Shooter Fights to Be Tried as a Minor
A Colorado teen suspected of orchestrating the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch this past May that resulted in the death of a classmate began making his case Monday to be tried in juvenile court.
Read moreSuspected Gunman in LA County School Shooting Dies
The 16-year-old boy who shot and killed two fellow students and wounded three others before turning the gun on himself Thursday morning has died, authorities in Los Angeles County said Friday evening.
Read moreReligious School
A Christian school has plausibly claimed that the state superintendent and an advisory board violated its constitutional rights, a federal court in Maryland ruled. The board kicked the school out of a program that provides scholarships for students to attend nonpublic schools due to the school’s stance on LGBTQ issues.
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