A student sued San Diego Unified School District and a teacher in superior court, claiming the teacher tried to persuade to prostitute herself to older men, and when she told the principal of it, he responded, “What? Another one?” but did not call the police, and told her that she needed to “move on.”
Read moreA black teacher sued Folsom Cordova Unified School District for discrimination, harassment and retaliation in El Dorado (Calif.) County Court, claiming that after she declined to participate in a faculty gift exchange, someone put a “large watermelon slice ornament” in her school mailbox.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the New York City Department of Education retaliated against a teacher by firing him the very day the department partially approved his request for accommodation.
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The U.S. and British embassies in Moscow said Wednesday that Russia has refused visas to teachers at a school that educates diplomats’ children.
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With the promise of having their debt wiped clean after 10 years of on-time monthly payments, some 73,554 Americans took out costly loans to get their teaching degrees.
Despite meeting the government’s requirements, however, 71% of these educators were denied loan forgiveness since 2017. In a federal complaint Thursday, the second largest teacher’s union in the country says ineptitude at the the Education Department is to blame.
Read moreAt a Democratic presidential forum in Houston on Friday, 10 candidates promised teachers’ union members more federal funding to transform the U.S. public education system with universal pre-kindergarten, teacher pay raises and more on-campus counselors to prevent school shootings.
Read moreTeachers by the hundreds filled the halls of the West Virginia state capitol on Saturday to express their outrage against the Senate leader and his bill, the Student Success Act.
Read moreThe Republican leader of the West Virginia Senate is once again angering teachers in the Mountain State by calling for a special legislative session on Saturday in an attempt to pass a bill that would allow for an unlimited amount of charter schools.
Read moreFleshing out his 2020 campaign platform, former Vice President Joe Biden revealed Tuesday that his education goals will include federal support for low-income schools and higher salaries for public educators.
Read moreA 13-year-old claims in a federal complaint that her middle school math teacher forcibly raped her in a locked classroom, and that the school board in Loudon County, Virginia, reinstated him and retaliated against her after she complained.
Read moreTens of thousands of teachers across Oregon walked off the job Wednesday to demand more money for schools, holding signs and wearing red shirts that have become synonymous with a nationwide movement pushing lawmakers to better fund education.
Read moreA proposed parcel tax meant to generate $500 million for the Los Angeles Unified School District over the next 12 years is under fire from a fiscal conservative group who say the language in the measure is ambiguous and should not be included on the ballots this June, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris finished a two-day swing through Michigan on Monday with campaign events at two Detroit-area elementary schools in front of crowds of spirited supporters, calling teachers “superheroes” and promising to raise their wages.
Read moreMore Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year’s mass shooting at a Parkland high school — though the new sheriff of Broward County, where Parkland High is, opposes it.
Read moreNorth Carolina teachers marched through the state capital on Wednesday to press lawmakers for, among other demands, better resource funding and higher wages for school support staff.
Read moreAccording to a new study released Wednesday from the Public Policy Institute of California, some see a solution through charter schools while others cannot support the issue because they see the model comes at the expense of low teacher salaries and a lack of funding for traditional public schools.
Read moreA jury should decide whether administrators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who were gunned down after leaving a conference room, failed to follow their own protocols and were negligent, attorneys representing two parents of deceased first-graders told a Connecticut appeals court Wednesday.
Read moreIn the days after a teenager shot and killed three fellow students at Ohio’s Chardon High School in 2012, then-Principal Andy Fetchik remembers getting a call from someone who knew just what he was experiencing. It was Frank DeAngelis, the principal of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, during the deadly 1999 shooting.
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