Lawmakers met with education experts Monday to address the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on state budgets, which has put public schools and students in a precarious position where historic shortfalls and more teacher layoffs are looming.
Read moreWith administrators studying ways to safely reopen schools this fall, California education officials on Monday recommended outdoor classes and masks for both students and teachers to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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Considering the case of two teachers fired from Catholic schools, the Supreme Court struggled on Monday with the boundaries of a doctrine that insulates religious institutions from lawsuits over hiring and firing decisions for certain types of employees.
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Virginia’s General Assembly met for a regularly scheduled veto session Wednesday, but the gathering was anything but normal as legislators prepared the state’s budget and addressed efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the shadow of a statewide lockdown.
Read moreTina Manus, the former head of the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, sued its director in federal court, claiming he fired her for distributing a teacher’s opinion piece titled “Honoring Overlooked Black Heroes” during February, which is Black History Month.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled that a former high school student may pursue her compelled speech claim against her sociology teacher who allegedly tried to force her to transcribe the Pledge of Allegiance and compared people who abstain from saying the pledge to “Soviet communists, supporters of Sharia, and people who condone pedophilia.”
Read moreA teacher in Travis Unified School District in Vacaville, Calif., dragged an 11-year-old autistic girl by the ankles in her classroom and kicked her, her guardian claims in federal court.
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Striking St. Paul teachers are going back to work after union leaders reached a tentative agreement Friday with district administrators, citing the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak as a factor in the decision to settle their contract dispute.
Read morePublic school teachers went on strike Tuesday morning in Minnesota’s capital city, demanding more support staff in the second-largest school district in the state.
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A Houston teachers union, making claims of racial discrimination, asked a federal judge Tuesday to block the Texas Education Agency from replacing their school district’s elected board of trustees with a handpicked board of managers.
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Hundreds of teachers dressed in red descended Monday on the Virginia Capitol to support education funding bills totaling $2 billion over two years, which passed their first legislative hurdles.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed teachers’ claims that the California Teachers Association diverted their wages without their consent to fund union political activities and campaigns they do not wish to support. The California Education Code allows superintendents to deduct dues from members who voluntarily join unions.
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While watching their students on the playground at lunchtime Tuesday, several teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles felt drops after an airplane flew overhead. It took a few seconds for them and their students to register that the liquid was accompanied by an overwhelming odor of jet fuel.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court ruled that a group of substitute teachers and other school employees are eligible for unemployment benefits during the summer sessions that “resemble other academic terms of the school year in terms of enrollment, staffing, budget, instructional program or other objective criteria.”
Read moreA Native American claims a teacher at Cibola High School in Albuquerque called her a “bloody Indian” in front of her 11th-grade English class, “moments after she cut off the braids of another female Native American student against her will in front of the same class,” in Bernalillo County Court.
Read moreA former teacher claims in federal court that the South Country Central School District in New York fired her illegally for sending a topless selfie photo to a male teacher with whom she was in a relationship, but did not discipline him.
Read moreA former student’s Title IX claim against a Katy, Texas, school district relating to the sexual relationship she had with a male teacher may continue, a federal court in the state ruled, finding there are questions pertaining to the district’s knowledge of the teacher’s prior inappropriate relationships with students.
Read moreA 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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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.
Read moreLittle Rock teachers will go on strike for one day this week over an Arkansas panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student district, union officials said Monday.
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