All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 30 2019 // The Evergreen State College in Washington is facing more than $135,000 in fines for multiple violations related to asbestos and other safety issues around its Olympia campus.The Department of Labor & Industries has...
Sep 30 2019 // Scientists, regulators and e-cigarette proponents missed, ignored or downplayed signs that vaping could significantly damage the lungs for nearly a decade, a review of medical literature, government documents and...
Sep 27 2019 // Around noon one Wednesday in July, two school districts from California’s Central Valley auctioned off their bonds to Wall Street underwriters.Both had the same credit rating. The deals were of similar size. They...
Sep 27 2019 // A 40-year-old man was charged Tuesday with burning down his South Carolina high school more than 23 years after authorities say he set books and other papers on fire in the hallways.Daniel Scott Harris, 40 left his...
Sep 26 2019 // A federal judge is closing a lawsuit that Duke University is settling over claims that it and nearby University of North Carolina conspired to hold down salaries of thousands of medical workers by not hiring staff away...
Sep 25 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has promoted four staff members to new positions and hired a new director of internal audit.TDI selected Arby Gonzales as the agency’s new Internal Audit director. Gonzales comes...
Sep 20 2019 // A school district in Michigan will pay $107,000 do settle a federal retaliation lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says the Waterford Public School System in Waterford, Michigan, will...
Sep 19 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has launched a comprehensive policy designed to cover infringements of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting discrimination based on sex in any public education program.The policy provides...
Sep 16 2019 // Florida is cracking down to ensure school districts, state colleges and state universities are protecting students’ Social Security numbers.In the past two years, state auditors have found that at least one-third of...
Sep 16 2019 // I’ve often pondered whether or not one person can excel at multitasking over another. Are women better at multitasking than men? Are younger people better multitaskers than their older counterparts?Today’s...
Sep 12 2019 // A school bus driver is dead and eight children have injuries after a school bus rolled over in northern Mississippi.The Mississippi Highway Patrol tells news outlets that the bus driver died in the Tuesday morning...
Sep 4 2019 // Oberlin College is seeking a new trial after being ordered to pay $25 million to the owners of a market who accused the Ohio school of ruining their business by encouraging protests and branding them racists after a...
Sep 3 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired the university services business of Mission Viejo, Calif.-based benefits broker and consultant Garnett-Powers & Associates Insurance Services Inc.Steve Johnson and his...
Aug 29 2019 // Emails, instant messaging, app notifications, RSS feeds, and a plethora of social networks inundate almost every aspect of daily life from work to home or just keeping in touch socially. Some people average more than four...
Aug 26 2019 // A former University of Southern California gynecologist charged with sexually abusing patents has posted bail and been released from jail.The Los Angeles Times reports Dr. George Tyndall was freed Friday evening on...
Aug 19 2019 // Eight students from a south Alabama high school are suffering elevated levels of carbon monoxide, and officials are trying to determine why.News outlets report that New Brockton High School canceled classes Friday after...
Aug 13 2019 // Schools in New York state can now install cameras on the stop arms of school buses to catch motorists who put students at risk under legislation signed into law last Tuesday by Governor Andrew Cuomo.Drivers caught on...
Aug 9 2019 // A Los Angeles jury has ordered the University of California Board of Regents to pay $1.58 million to a woman who alleged co-workers made harassing and racially charged comments. The verdict was announced Tuesday by lawyers...
Aug 9 2019 // There were so many questions after 17-year-old Ely Serna brought a shotgun to his Ohio school and opened fire in 2017, wounding two.Along with the whys, West Liberty-Salem High School assistant principal Andy McGill...
Aug 9 2019 // Dartmouth College announced Tuesday that it has settled a contentious federal lawsuit with nine women who sued the school over allegations that it ignored years of harassment and assault by former psychology department...