All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2014 // InVEST, the insurance industry’s classroom to career education program, announced that all Chicago Public School Career and Technical Education (CTE) finance programs will now offer its curriculum to seniors.The...
Aug 15 2014 // Former Mountain State University students who sued the now-defunct Beckley, West Virginia school would be entitled to compensation under a tentative settlement announced this week.The proposed settlement announced by...
Aug 14 2014 // A Texas school district is scrambling to prepare for the upcoming school year after the Eagle Ford Shale oil boom led to staffing problems.The Alice Independent School District still has to fill 21 teaching positions...
Aug 8 2014 // A new South Carolina law means drivers who illegally pass a stopped school bus in South Carolina are more likely to get hit in the wallet.The law, signed in June, allows law enforcement to write traffic tickets after...
Aug 4 2014 // The family of a girl who was critically wounded two years ago when a gun went off inside a classmate’s backpack at her Washington state elementary school agreed Friday to a $1.2 million legal settlement.The Bremerton...
Aug 1 2014 // Some Kentucky school districts have started getting bills over the past couple of weeks to help offset insurance claims against the failed Kentucky School Boards Insurance Trust.The trust announced last year that it would...
Jul 29 2014 // An internal audit has found that the Caddo Parish school system has been testing far fewer bus drivers than it should for drugs and alcohol.Federal regulations require random testing each year of at least half the...
Jul 29 2014 // Edward Lane’s Supreme Court victory in a landmark whistleblower case doesn’t change the fact he lost his state job and more than half his income while helping convict a state legislator of getting paid for not...
Jul 28 2014 // New research appears to confirm that laws against texting while driving do reduce traffic fatalities if they are primary enforcement laws.Primary texting bans are associated with a three percent reduction in traffic...
Jul 25 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association and Electronic Arts Inc. won a judge’s preliminary approval of $60 million in settlements of athletes’ claims that their images were used in video games without...
Jul 22 2014 // The Hanover Insurance Group advises that as new high school graduates get ready to head off to college, parents would be wise to prepare for potential risks and liabilities, and to consider the insurance...
Jul 21 2014 // The University of Connecticut said it will pay a group of students almost $1.3 million to settle a sex discrimination suit filed last year that led to a hearing in the state legislature.The five current and former female...
Jul 16 2014 // Sometimes, the most deadly part of a fire isn’t the smoke or flames but the stress placed on a firefighter’s body as they move in, out, up and down a burning building.Wearing heavy “bunker gear” and...
Jul 10 2014 // Bloomberg John Wayne Enterprises LLC, a family business set up to protect rights associated with the late movie actor, asked a federal court to declare that its trademarks don’t infringe those of Duke University.In a...
Jul 9 2014 // One in five U.S. colleges doesn’t provide faculty and staff with training in how to respond to victims of sexual assault, according to a survey by Senator Claire McCaskill.In addition, about 31 percent of the schools...
Jul 9 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association suggested curbing full-contact football practices, echoing a policy instituted by the Ivy League in 2011.The recommendation is among a set of guidelines created to...
Jul 7 2014 // The father of a southern Illinois teenager who killed himself a day after watching an anti-bullying movie at school has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the district, accusing administrators of failing to stop the...
Jul 3 2014 // Relatives of two former Auburn University football players shot to death at a party and a third man who was wounded are suing the suspected gunman.Desmonte Leonard faces capital murder and other charges in the killings of...
Jul 3 2014 // A California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Alabama State University against the auditing firm that’s reviewing the school’s finances.An attorney for Forensic Strategic Solutions said that Los Angeles...
Jun 30 2014 // The Texas Board of Professional Engineers is investigating whether laws or rules regarding professional practices were broken over flaws that closed a $60 million high school football stadium.The state’s engineering...