A 54-year-old Spanish teacher with a hearing impairment claims in a federal discrimination suit that the school district in Beavercreek City, Ohio, unfairly transferred her to teach French, which “requires very discriminating ears,” in an effort to force her out of work.
Read moreIn a sexual-assault case that brought disgrace to an elite New Hampshire prep school, the state Supreme Court upheld the conviction Tuesday of an 18-year-old who lured a freshman to a campus boiler room as part of an annual hookup competition.
Read moreEU regulators that called out improper tax exemptions granted to religious businesses in Italy should have demanded recovery of the aid as well, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.
Read moreRhode Island’s Department of Education must provide school services to individuals with disabilities until they are 22, the First Circuit has ruled.
Read moreJust as jury selection was about to begin, the Los Angeles School District agreed to pay $5 million to settle a case with a former student whose math teacher sexually abused her when she was in middle school.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit affirmed that the School Board of Concordia Parish, La., and Delta Charter (Schools) Group are bound by a consent decree ordering them to desegregate the Delta Charter School, which is overwhelmingly white though the parish is half black and half white.
Read moreAccused Russian agent Maria Butina urged a federal judge Friday to allow her to seek information from the university she attended that she claims will help her evaluate the government’s case against her.
Read moreA Wisconsin school district did not discriminate against a Catholic school on religious grounds when it refused to provide bus service because it is the second Catholic school in the area, the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreA male student claims in a federal lawsuit that a Kentucky school board allows girls, but not boys, to play on basketball teams at multiple grade levels.
Read moreAccusing the Milton Hershey School of barely disguising its sectarian activities, two former employees claim in a federal complaint that the philanthropic boarding school threatens its nonevangelical staff and students with “isolation, death, hell, and demonic possession.”
Read moreParents of an autistic, 8-year-old boy with casts on both legs claim in court that a Durham School Services bus driver dropped their son off, “miles from home,” despite protests from his elementary school classmates.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit grappled Friday with whether a student artist suffered discrimination when his contest-winning art was removed from the U.S. Capitol complex.
Read moreOne of the largest school districts in California won’t be preliminarily barred from implementing an initiative to combat bullying of Muslim students, a federal judge found Tuesday in rejecting a parent group’s claim the policy violates the civil rights of students of other faiths.
Read moreThe parents of a homeless 17-year-old brought a federal complaint Monday over their son’s recent school expulsion, which they contend was based on a doctored Snapchat.
Read moreA lawsuit over a student government campaign video that some considered racially insensitive fuels an ongoing debate about schools’ rights to limit free speech.
Read moreVirginia’s Republican candidate for Senate blamed the lack of civility in modern politics on the removal of Christian values from public schools at a candidate forum Sunday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed Monday that San Bernardino County, the Etiwanda School District and sheriff’s officers violated the constitutional rights of three middle-school girls who were arrested in school, “to prove a point,” after repeated accusations of bullying, fighting and disrespect.
Read moreThe Texas American Federation of Teachers and Texas State Teachers Association claim in a federal complaint that the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Mike Morath exceeded their authority by issuing rules that relaxed standards for charter schools.
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