The majority of Americans in both political parties hold teachers and members of the military in high regard, but are starkly divided in their opinions of police and college professors, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
Read moreUnable to shake decades of suspicion for the 1960 murder of a 25-year-old beauty queen from South Texas, former Catholic priest John Feit will finally face a jury next week, more than 57 years after the crime left a community looking for answers.
Read moreA North Carolina high school teacher who lost his job for stepping on an American flag in his social studies class to teach a lesson about the Bill of Rights has sued the school board a second time, this time for racial discrimination.
Read moreThe Second Circuit affirmed dismissal Friday of a minimum-wage and overtime complaint against the Zoni Language Centers by English language teachers.
Read moreFighting for a teacher who was fired after her class dissected race issues in the rape of the Central Park jogger, an attorney told the Second Circuit on Tuesday that their case boils down to academic freedom.
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The former Tennessee high school teacher arrested in California after going on the run for over a month with a female student was indicted Thursday on charges of obstructing justice and transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes.
Read moreA proprietary system that measures teacher performance based on student test scores may violate teachers’ civil rights because they can’t verify the results are accurate, a federal judge ruled, advancing a lawsuit against Texas’ largest school district.
Read moreThe mother of an Iowa boy claims in court that a football coach and middle school teacher slept with her then-10-year-old son for two nights on an air mattress in his classroom and sexually assaulted him.
Read moreThe Tennessee teacher suspected of kidnapping a 15-year-old student has been arrested in California and the girl was found safe after she was missing for more than a month, police said Thursday.
Read moreLos Angeles Unified School District has sued seven insurance companies for at least $40 million for refusing to provide coverage of claims that a third-grade teacher molested students for years.
Read moreIn a class action resounding in politics, a veteran teacher sued New Mexico, claiming it punishes teachers for taking more than three sick days per year, though they earn nine sick days a year under their contracts.
Read moreA teen who says she was brutally raped and held captive for hours on a Catholic school-sponsored trip to Europe claims the assault was deemed something that “happens all the time.”
Read moreNew Jersey prosecutors could be liable, a federal judge ruled, for bringing charges against a high school vice principal who failed to report a student-teacher sexual liaison.
Read moreOn the heels of a grand jury report chronicling a posh Pennsylvania boarding school’s entrenched culture of sexual abuse, a former Solebury School student claims in court that she lost her virginity to a gym teacher more than twice her age.
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A former police officer who raped a New York City schoolteacher in broad daylight did not persuade the state’s highest court Tuesday that his 75-to-life sentence rose to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Bringing animal-cruelty charges against a New York City teacher, federal prosecutors say the Bronx man kept a farm where he raised up to 45 chickens for cockfighting.
Read moreA former teacher at a Catholic high school in North Carolina claims in court that he was fired after he posted a Facebook announcement of his plans to marry his same-sex partner.
Read moreTwo teachers filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the student-aid organization that services their federal grants of converting the grants into interest-bearing loans based on a technicality.
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