All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2018 // A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official who handled sexual misconduct complaints and resigned when he was accused of sexually harassing a woman on campus in 2015, went on to hold positions handling similar...
May 21 2018 // First, a scraping sound. Then, chaos and panic as a bus taking a group of fifth-graders on a field trip collided with a dump truck and toppled over on a busy highway, killing a student and a teacher and injuring dozens of...
May 18 2018 // Authorities say a 13-year-old girl has died after her car and a school bus collided in a head-on crash northeast of Atlanta.Dawson County Schools Superintendent Damon Gibbs says that Summer Faith Anderson died after the...
May 14 2018 // Authorities say a science experiment gone awry injured 17 students and a teacher, prompting the evacuation of a Tennessee school.Hendersonville Fire Department Chief Scotty Bush tells news outlets that emergency crews...
May 8 2018 // Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., is awarding $1 million in grants to 10 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general...
May 3 2018 // A Massachusetts family whose 5-year-old special needs daughter was left stranded for hours on a cold school bus has settled a lawsuit against the school district.A lawyer for the Gloucester family told The Gloucester Daily...
May 2 2018 // An instructor has filed a lawsuit against Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore. alleging the school wrongly fired him while he was on medical leave because of work-related stress.The Register-Guard reports Johnny...
May 1 2018 // Newly released documents show the University of Minnesota paid nearly $300,000 to settle sexual harassment complaints related to former athletic director Norwood Teague. He resigned in 2015 after two high-ranking...
May 1 2018 // Authorities say 17 people were hurt, two seriously, when a charter bus carrying a high school chorus team crashed in South Carolina.Colleton County Fire-Rescue Chief Barry McRoy tells WCIV-TV the crash happened early...
Apr 24 2018 // A basketball coach is suing a South Carolina school district, saying he was fired because he blew the whistle on issues such as grade-changing and covering up sexual harassment.The Morning News of Florence reports Andre...
Apr 20 2018 // A school bus and a semitractor-trailer collided in Florida, slightly injuring six high school students.News outlets report the bus was carrying about 18 students when it crashed Wednesday in Brooksville, about 50 miles (80...
Apr 17 2018 // Glatfelter Public Practice (GPP), a division of Glatfelter Insurance Group, has expanded its Independent School Bus Contractor insurance program to eight additional states, bringing the total number of states it is...
Apr 17 2018 // A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have won the 2018 Spencer-RIMS Risk Management Challenge, the Spencer Educational Foundation reports.Case study provider Andrew Bent, risk manager at Sage...
Apr 12 2018 // Organizers say right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos will not speak at Louisiana State University after failing to acquire proper insurance for the event.The Advocate reports that student group College Republicans at...
Apr 9 2018 // A school district outside San Diego, Calif. has agreed to pay a former student and his family $7.1 million after he received a brain injury while playing football.The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the Grossmont Union...
Apr 3 2018 // Medical marijuana laws could be a boon to those battling the opioid epidemic, according to researchers who have identified a link between increased access to medical marijuana and a reduction in opioid prescriptions.The...
Mar 21 2018 // The North Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a $500,000 cap on damages in a 2015 fatal school bus-train crash near Larimore.The bus driver and a student died when the Larimore school bus with 13 students collided with a BNSF...
Mar 21 2018 // Insurance broker Paul Marshall can count on his phone ringing in the aftermath of a school shooting.Since the Feb. 14 shooting at a Florida high school, where 17 people were killed and more than a dozen injured, seven...
Mar 19 2018 // The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says reported DUI offenses on college campuses in the state have increased by more than 60 percent. The TBI said in a Thursday statement that its annual crime study detailing the...
Mar 16 2018 // A new pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway at a Miami-area college Thursday, crushing at least five vehicles under massive slabs. Several people were seen being loaded into ambulances and authorities launched search...