All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2017 // Recording and analyzing patient and family reports about rude and disrespectful behavior can identify surgeons with higher rates of surgical site infections and other avoidable adverse outcomes, according to a study led by...
Feb 16 2017 // In a move sure to shake up Florida’s political landscape, Jeff Atwater, the state’s chief financial officer, resigned Feb. 10 to take a job at Florida Atlantic University.Atwater, a Republican from Palm Beach...
Feb 15 2017 // Authorities say as many as 7,700 Manatee County school employees are at risk of being victims of a data breach.School officials learned earlier this month that two payroll employees of the school district along...
Feb 15 2017 // Louisiana officials say a school bus carrying about 38 children has overturned, with 11 children and the driver suffering what were described as minor to moderate injuries.Louisiana State Police Trooper Dustin Dwight says...
Feb 13 2017 // Officials in Catawba County say one person was killed when an SUV collided with a school bus. Local media outlets report the Catawba County Schools said a driver, a monitor and three students were on the bus at the time of...
Feb 8 2017 // With Insurance Careers Month underway, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation announced that it expects to have provided more than $1 million in cumulative funding to Texas universities and their...
Feb 7 2017 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced a favorable court order on the dissolution of health maintenance organization AmCare Health Plans of Louisiana Inc. (AmCare) that paves the way for more than $2.7...
Feb 6 2017 // A Kansas Insurance Department staff member will be visiting with business majors at Kansas universities during February to promote insurance courses as part of a statewide education initiative to attract more employees to...
Feb 3 2017 // The former director of football operations at Baylor University has filed a lawsuit arguing he was unfairly named as contributing to the school’s mishandling of student sexual assault complaints.Colin...
Feb 2 2017 // An $8 million lawsuit against a fraternity at a northwestern Oregon college says a hazing incident resulted in a 20-year-old man losing his right eye. KOIN-TV reports that the lawsuit alleges Kellen Johansen was coerced...
Feb 2 2017 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reminds Missouri high school seniors and current college students that the application deadline for Missouri Insurance Education Foundation (MIEF) scholarships is March 31.Four $1,500...
Feb 2 2017 // Two California school districts will pay most of a roughly $5 million settlement to a girl who was sexually abused by a former high school teacher. Jeremy Monn is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in 2015...
Jan 30 2017 // A former Baylor University student who says she was raped by two football players filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 27 against the school that alleges there were dozens more assaults of women involving other players.The...
Jan 24 2017 // The frequency of large-scale tornado outbreaks is increasing in the United States, particularly when it comes to the most extreme events, according to research recently published in Science.The study by researchers...
Jan 24 2017 // A company running a string of taxpayer-funded charter schools and its founder can’t sue a former North Carolina local school superintendent for libel after he criticized plans for a competing school, the state Court...
Jan 23 2017 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired University Health Plans (UHP), a Quincy, Mass., based brokerage firm specializing in student health insurance...
Jan 23 2017 // A former theater professor at Dixie State University in Utah who was found not guilty of assaulting a student is suing university faculty and staff members for more than $22 million over his termination.Varlo Davenport is...
Jan 20 2017 // Utah State University and a fraternity are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student accusing the school and organization of failing to act on reports of sexual assault and heavy drinking at...
Jan 18 2017 // Testing at 13 buildings belonging to a western New York school district returned results that confirmed the presence of elevated levels of lead in water at some schools.The Democrat & Chronicle reports nearly 14...
Jan 17 2017 // A University of Oregon student seeks $3 million in a lawsuit against medical providers who she says failed to properly diagnose her with meningococcal disease in 2015.The Register-Guard reported that Christina...