All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2018 // Police at the University of Tennessee are investigating a fraternity after two women reported being drugged and sexually assaulted. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the university sent a safety notice Friday around the...
Dec 7 2018 // A team from the University of Central Florida has won a national cybersecurity competition.UCF’s Collegiate Cyber Defense Team won the U.S. Department of Energy’s CyberForce National Competition last weekend....
Dec 6 2018 // The West Virginia University Board of Governors has settled a lawsuit over a student’s 2014 death at a fraternity house for $250,000.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the state Board of Risk and Insurance...
Dec 5 2018 // Attorneys say a Southern California school district has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle a lawsuit over a worker who allegedly molested three elementary school students.The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the agreement...
Dec 5 2018 // The family of a slain University of Virginia student has refiled a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted of killing her.The Daily Progress reports Yeardley Love’s family filed...
Dec 4 2018 // Monday marked a return to school and some semblance of routine for thousands of children who lost their homes to a deadly wildfire in Northern California.Schools in Butte County have been closed since Nov. 8, when the Camp...
Dec 3 2018 // Investigators say one adult has been critically injured and several students were slightly hurt when a school bus was hit head-on by a car in North Texas.The Department of Public Safety says the Bridgeport Independent...
Dec 3 2018 // More cases of a respiratory virus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, College Park, where a freshman died of complications from the virus last month.The director of the university’s health center said...
Dec 3 2018 // Studies published earlier this year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Hurricane Center showing a dramatic increase in the frequency of intense rain events in the Houston area in recent...
Nov 28 2018 // State records show that former Southeast Missouri State University baseball player Broc Kreitler settled a lawsuit over an injury he suffered during a practice for $200,000. The Southeast Missourian reports that the...
Nov 28 2018 // Students who attended a Massachusetts college that abruptly shut its doors filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the school and former administrators and trustees, alleging they were victims of fraud,...
Nov 14 2018 // Derek Ross has his hands full with the Woolsey Fire in Southern California for three reasons.He’s an insurance agent with numerous clients affected, he’s the president of the board of a school district...
Nov 13 2018 // Five Alabama high school football players were injured in a locker room when a brick wall collapsed onto them while they were getting ready for a game.News outlets report that the Oakman High School players were in the...
Nov 5 2018 // A western Montana school district has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed school officials did not adequately protect a student from being harassed and groped by a music teacher.KTMF-TV reported the...
Nov 5 2018 // The Main Street America Group, a Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered super-regional property and casualty insurance carrier, has promoted Jerry Waters to vice president and chief accounting officer, effective...
Nov 2 2018 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation recently honored 20 students studying insurance and risk management at universities in Texas with $31,000 in scholarships.Funds for ICT’s scholarship program...
Nov 2 2018 // The former head of Utah Valley University’s anti-discrimination office has reached a settlement with the college after the woman filed a lawsuit accusing the school of unfairly firing her after she raised concerns...
Nov 1 2018 // State troopers say seven children have been injured in a school bus crash in Alabama. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Baker tells news outlets six children were released after being treated for minor...
Oct 31 2018 // The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a student who was molested by a teacher when she was 13.It would be the largest payout the nation’s second-largest...
Oct 29 2018 // The University of Arizona has banned dockless electric scooters from its campus effective immediately.University of Arizona Parking and Transportation Services Interim Executive Director Gail Nazarenko says the decision...