All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2021 // A Kentucky judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking refunds for University of Kentucky students who had to vacate campus because of the COVID-19 pandemic could continue, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.Franklin County...
Dec 16 2020 // Four people were injured on Dec. 14 in an explosion and fire at a school bus garage in Waterloo, Iowa, authorities said.The explosion occurred at the School Bus Sales garage shortly before 1 p.m. Four people were taken to...
Dec 15 2020 // A Florida school district abruptly dropped its request Thursday that the families of students and staff slain in a 2018 high school massacre be required to turn over their social media posts from that period as it tries to...
Dec 15 2020 // An Indiana school district will pay up to $70,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a federal disability and age discrimination charge, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC said...
Dec 11 2020 // Students who took online classes at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology due to the pandemic are now seeking a return of some tuition and fees. The students filed two class-action lawsuits this...
Dec 7 2020 // Laurie Zangwill-Infantino and Marjorie Segale, co-founders of Insurance Community Center/University, launched their business 10 years ago this month with a vision to create a center for learning and a community for sharing...
Dec 3 2020 // A South Carolina family has filed a lawsuit alleging their student fell ill after an elementary school covered up the presence of mold in a building.Tamara Broach, a guardian to an unnamed student, filed the lawsuit this...
Dec 1 2020 // The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as...
Dec 1 2020 // The University of Vermont Medical Center is continuing to recover from the cyber attack late last month that crippled access to electronic records at the Burlington hospital.On Tuesday, the hospital said it had...
Nov 25 2020 // The University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will contribute $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia over the next decade to deal with environmental hazards such as asbestos and lead in school...
Nov 18 2020 // The prestigious University of California system has reached a proposed $73 million settlement with seven women who accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse.As part of the class-action lawsuit, more than 6,600 patients...
Nov 17 2020 // A small community college in northeast Kansas has settled a lawsuit accusing it of directing coaches to recruit more white athletes and subjecting Black students to excessive scrutiny such as background checks before...
Nov 16 2020 // Wholesaler brokers of all ages are facing hard market conditions with rising insurance rates, tighter underwriting and fewer carriers willing to write some tough classes. They, like everyone, are also experiencing fewer...
Nov 13 2020 // A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvard University’s use of race in undergraduate admissions, rejecting a challenge by affirmative action opponents who said the Ivy League school’s policy discriminates...
Nov 3 2020 // A data breach at a North Carolina community college may have affected many of its current and former students.The Greensboro News & Records reported last week that Guilford Technical Community College was hit with a...
Oct 30 2020 // The former president and chancellor of Liberty University (LU), Jerry Falwell Jr., is suing the school for reputational damage following his August resignation, according to a complaint filed in the Commonwealth of...
Oct 30 2020 // The Douglas School District in Box Elder, S.D., will pay a former district employee $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in February 2019, representatives from both sides said on Oct. 27.Patrick Ealy said he was wrongly...
Oct 26 2020 // Amarillo, Texas-based Fairly Group and its sister-company OccuNet have unveiled an insurance product that covers medical expenses for collegiate student athletes who contract COVID-19.Inspired by the viral #wewanttoplay...
Oct 26 2020 // Austin, TX, October 26, 2020 – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research announces the launch of the CISR High School Program at Duncanville ISD in Texas. Over one hundred 11th and 12th grade...
Oct 23 2020 // A South Carolina family has settled a lawsuit filed after a 14-year-old high school football player collapsed after an intense practice and died, news outlets reported.The suit, filed against Lexington County School...