All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 13 2023 // In the wake of a shooting that left five people injured during homecoming festivities, Morgan State University leaders announced Tuesday they plan to build a wall around most of the northeast Baltimore campus and station...
Oct 13 2023 // A jury has delivered a $135 million verdict in a molestation case involving a middle school teacher, determining that negligence by a Southern California school district allowed the abuse of two students during the...
Oct 13 2023 // A Connecticut high school student died after losing consciousness at football practice, school officials said.Windsor High School student Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera lost consciousness during practice Tuesday and was given...
Oct 11 2023 // Dartmouth College lawyers argued last Thursday that the Ivy League school’s basketball players should not be considered employees because they are unpaid members of a money-losing program whose need-based...
Oct 3 2023 // An $11 million settlement has been reached in federal lawsuits over police gunfire outside a high school football game near Philadelphia in 2021 that killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded others, an attorney for the girl`s...
Oct 2 2023 // A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing.The settlement brings to...
Sep 28 2023 // All the high school students who were injured in an upstate New York charter bus crash on the way to a band camp are expected to recover, according to their school superintendent.The bus, one of six carrying students from...
Sep 22 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class intensified this week as the student’s family and his...
Sep 22 2023 // Two people were killed and 40 others were injured when a bus carrying students to a band camp ran off a highway and rolled over in New York State Thursday.The governor of the state said preliminary indications are that a...
Sep 20 2023 // The Texas A&M University System issued staff guidance earlier this month on how to comply with the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, providing a first glimpse into how Texas universities...
Sep 12 2023 // A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing.The settlement brings to...
Sep 6 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A pier filled with people celebrating Labor Day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus partially collapsed into a lake, leaving one person hospitalized and slightly injuring about 20 others,...
Sep 5 2023 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) announced it has partnered with the Alliant Insurance Foundation, the Spencer Educational Foundation and Southern University to create a new risk management and insurance degree...
Sep 5 2023 // CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — As sirens blared across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and cell phones lit up with alerts of an active shooter, Micah Baldonado cried quietly at his desk while his teacher...
Aug 31 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data...
Aug 30 2023 // HIGHLAND, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas community college that was accused of trying to reduce the number of Black student-athletes has agreed to a settlement, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.The department said in a...
Aug 30 2023 // Vassar College, founded in 1861 to provide equal education for women, has been hit with a class action suit by female faculty members alleging unfair sex discrimination in compensation, evaluations and promotions of female...
Aug 30 2023 // Yale University and a student group announced Friday that they`ve reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit that accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including...
Aug 28 2023 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20,...
Aug 25 2023 // Goosehead Insurance announced the Agency Launch Program, a plan geared towards recent college graduates interested in acquiring the skills to own their own Goosehead Insurance franchise.The program promises professional...