All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 11 2013 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) has proposed taking over the management of the troubled funds used for school board workers’ compensation and property and liability claims.DOI Commissioner Sharon P. Clark...
Nov 6 2013 // A Harahan manufacturing company has had to recruit outside Louisiana for skilled trade workers. The Laitram Corp. isn’t alone in its difficulty finding trained workers for such jobs as electricians and welders.Turner...
Nov 4 2013 // Is peewee football too early to wonder about concussions? Maybe not: A major report says far too little is known about the risks in youth sports, especially for athletes who suit up before high school.And it’s not...
Oct 28 2013 // Penn State officials announced Monday that over the past few months the university has reached agreement with 26 of the victims of former assistant football coach Gerald Sandusky.The aggregate dollar amount paid by the...
Oct 21 2013 // A University of Alabama study has found that the April 2011 tornado didn’t severely impact home foreclosures in the Tuscaloosa area.Sociologist Bronwen Lichtenstein says researchers noted a slight decrease in...
Oct 15 2013 // California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a for-profit college company of misrepresenting job placement rates, false advertising and other deceptive practices to lure low-income residents to take out...
Oct 14 2013 // Penn State has spent more than $50 million on fines, legal bills and other costs linked to a sex abuse scandal that has roiled the university for nearly two years, according to the school’s website.That figure does...
Oct 7 2013 // The insurance industry is facing a crisis. Twenty percent of the insurance workforce is near retirement age, compared to only 15 percent of the broader financial services workforce. By 2018, the number of the insurance...
Sep 6 2013 // Helping youth find their way onto lakes to fish. That’s what John Albertson, an insurance agent in Bloomington and youth director for Indiana B.A.S.S., is trying to accomplish.He’s actively seeking students...
Aug 26 2013 // In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They’re also meeting the armed school resource officer who will be...
Aug 22 2013 // The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has appointed Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, to its Insurance and Risk Management Center’s Advisory Council serving the...
Aug 22 2013 // Electronic Arts Inc. won a court ruling that puts on hold claims accusing the company of profiting from using likenesses of college athletes in its video games.The ruling by a federal appeals court in San Francisco will...
Aug 20 2013 // In one football practice, some players may take several hits, while others take a few big blows.For coaches and trainers, keeping track of it all can be difficult. “A lot of times when we’re on the field,...
Aug 19 2013 // Pennsylvania State University agreed to settle the first of 31 suits filed in the sex-abuse scandal involving ex-football coach Jerry Sandusky, with about 25 more set to settle, lawyers in the resolved case said.The...
Aug 18 2013 // A ruling by a Florida appeals court on Friday has reduced a $10 million damage award to $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
Aug 16 2013 // The College of Business at Colorado State University is a step closer to launching a program to train students in the insurance and risk management fields thanks to a $150,000 gift from the IMA Foundation.The Enterprise...
Aug 8 2013 // An Arkansas school district that trained more than 20 teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on campus through a program that faces questions over its legality was wrong to make secret the names of the employees,...
Aug 6 2013 // West Virginia University has reduced its workers’ compensation costs by about $600,000 and is looking for more ways to save money.WVU Office of Risk Management head Mike Ganso tells The Dominion Post that the effort...
Aug 2 2013 // Earthquakes never occur when needed so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety.Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and...
Aug 1 2013 // The University of Central Oklahoma has been selected as a co-host of the 2014 National Tornado Summit.The summit serves as a forum for national and state experts to meet and recommend new policies to improve emergency...