All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 26 2018 // A Vermont school district says $50,000 was stolen electronically from one of its bank accounts.Cindy Brownell, the board chair of the Pownal Elementary School District, says officials believe the theft occurred from...
Jun 21 2018 // The University of Texas has agreed to settle a race and sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney.Kearney attorney Jody Mask on Wednesday told The Associated Press that the case...
Jun 20 2018 // The University of Washington will pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after the college billed a Republican club security fees for a rally.The UW College Republicans sued, saying the bill for $17,000 to cover security...
Jun 15 2018 // Eleven former University of North Dakota women’s hockey players have filed a discrimination lawsuit seeking to reinstate the program that was cut 15 months ago.The federal complaint filed against the North Dakota...
Jun 12 2018 // Nine black former and current University of Minnesota football players who say their rights were violated in a sexual misconduct investigation sued the school on Friday, alleging they are victims of racial and gender...
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...