All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2018 // A central Ohio school district has agreed to pay nearly a half-million dollars to settle lawsuits filed by families of students who were sexually abused by a teacher. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Olentangy Local...
Jun 4 2018 // How to manage active shooter risks on campuses is a top concern for risk managers.Craig McAllister, director of risk management, Cornell University, told attendees at the recent RIMS Annual Conference in San Antonio,...
May 30 2018 // Note: This story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.Less than two weeks after 10 people were killed in a southeast Texas school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott laid out a 40-page, 40-strategy plan for preventing future...
May 24 2018 // The Waukee school district in Iowa has reached another settlement with an employee who filed a lawsuit claiming he was forced to resign after reporting improper conduct by the chief operating officer.The Des Moines...
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...