An appeals panel reinstated First Amendment claims brought by a philosophy professor who was threatened with suspension or termination after he refused to call a transgender student by her preferred pronouns because of his religious beliefs.
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Under pressure to ease Germany’s virus restrictions, officials last month agreed to gradually reopen schools. Confirmed COVID-19 cases started climbing again, leading some states to backtrack while others pressed on and insisted that in-class teaching must be the rule.
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A federal judge dismissed a West Virginia teacher’s civil rights lawsuit brought after she was fired over anti-Muslim tweets, rejecting her claim that the school’s enforcement of an immorality provision violates the First Amendment.
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A professor at a Minnesota university argues that its union violates her free-speech rights by barring her from powerful committees because she is a vocal opponent of the union.
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U.S. guidelines that say students should be kept 6 feet apart in schools are receiving new scrutiny from federal health experts, state governments and education officials working to return as many children as possible to the classroom.
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The federal appeals panel sided with teachers’ unions that charged Maryland educators fees regardless of their membership status.
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The city’s school board adopted health and safety guidelines for reopening schools, but a conflict with teachers over in-person instruction time could derail plans to bring kids back inside classrooms this year.
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More than a dozen French professors at a top Turkish university face the threat of expulsion after being denied work permits while a diplomatic feud rages between Paris and Ankara.
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Following previous evidence that kids likely play a smaller role in spreading the coronavirus, CDC researchers dug into trends in one Georgia school district.
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Starting in March, 10% of the state’s Covid-19 vaccines will be reserved for teachers and school employees even though Newsom and lawmakers have yet to settle on a plan to reopen campuses.
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The union representing educators in Chicago Public Schools voted in favor of an agreement to return to in-person learning after
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Upholding the first set of awards to Black and Latino teachers who were given a racially biased literacy test, the Second Circuit found that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in calculating individual damages.
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Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a former teacher accused of sexually abusing her former students in Australia, capping a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments and antagonized Australia’s Jewish community.
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A quarter century ago, thousands of Black and Latino teachers brought a discrimination case against New York City. The Second Circuit probed Thursday whether an algorithm should guide how damages are doled out.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit upheld a teacher’s class action suit seeking recovery of “fair-share fees” he made under protest to the Chicago Teachers Union before a U.S. Supreme Court decision concluded the extraction of such fees from non-union members was unconstitutional. The teacher requested the circuit court affirm the dismissal so that he can appeal to the Supreme Court.
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China sentenced a Taiwanese professor to four years in jail for spying, officials said Wednesday, as tensions between Beijing and Taipei deteriorate further.
Read moreAn appeals court in New Jersey reversed a ruling in favor of a Catholic school, which allegedly fired an unmarried teacher after discovering she was pregnant. Knowledge of the teacher’s pregnancy alone is not a basis to determine whether she violated the school’s moral code.
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An Ohio philosophy professor punished for his refusal to call a transgender student by her preferred pronouns asked a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday to revive his First Amendment lawsuit against the school and its trustees.
Read moreA Texas appeals court revived a teacher’s suit against a school district in which she claims she was forced to resign from her position under duress and false pretenses after her ex-fiance emailed them unauthorized nude photos of her.
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Two young men and a 17-year-old woman will be brought before a French judge Friday as part of the inquiry into the grisly killing of a teacher who showed students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, judicial sources told AFP.
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