All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 15 2022 // Brown University is taking issue with a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union regarding a court order that requires the Ivy league school to pay more than $1 million to cover fees and expenses related to a...
Nov 8 2022 // A Washington State University police sergeant accused of sexual misconduct while on duty in Pullman has resigned.Police Sgt. Matt Kuhrt submitted his resignation effective this week, KXLY-TV reported. A university...
Nov 7 2022 // A jury ordered Southern California’s Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to pay $45 million to the family of autistic twins who were physically abused and restrained by an aide at their elementary school.The...
Oct 27 2022 // LOS ANGELES (AP) – A jury ordered Southern California’s Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to pay $45 million to the family of autistic twins who were physically abused and restrained by an aide at their...
Oct 25 2022 // A skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium on Friday, officials said.In a statement, Washington County Schools Superintendent Jerry Boyd said the diver jumped...
Oct 20 2022 // The school board in Vermont’s largest city plans to sue the manufacturer of chemicals that forced the closure of Burlington High School, officials said.Burlington School District officials last Thursday announced...
Oct 18 2022 // FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental...
Oct 17 2022 // University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics employees who say that overtime and other payments were improperly paid will receive $15 million as part of a class-action suit that was filed in 2019, according to documents...
Oct 5 2022 // The Los Angeles public school system, the second-largest in the US, said an extortionist group had accessed a massive database but had not leaked as much sensitive information from it as initially feared.Student and staff...
Sep 30 2022 // UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A transgender teacher who said she was harassed by students, parents and colleagues has settled a lawsuit with a Maryland school district with an agreement that includes policy changes and...
Sep 22 2022 // A school bus crashed into a store in South Carolina on Tuesday, hitting one student outside and sending seven people to the hospital, authorities said.The front of the school bus was inside the brick building in North...
Sep 20 2022 // Virginia Commonwealth University will pay nearly $1 million to the family of a young man who died after a 2021 fraternity hazing incident as part of a recent settlement agreement.The agreement with the family of Adam Oakes...
Sep 19 2022 // A judge on Friday signed off on a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a University of Michigan doctor, an order that allows victims to start collecting a portion of a $490 million...
Sep 19 2022 // Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize —for now —an LGBTQ student group.In an email to...
Sep 12 2022 // The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club.The court acted Friday in a brief order signed by Justice Sonia...
Sep 7 2022 // A Texas jury awarded the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston $48,529,961 for damages caused by COVID-19 in what appears to be the first jury verdict in a lawsuit that sought insurance coverage for lost business income...
Sep 7 2022 // The huge Los Angeles Unified School District’s information technology systems were targeted by an external cyberattack during the Labor Day weekend, officials said.Despite the disruption, schools in the...
Sep 2 2022 // Authorities say a brick column collapsed at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, killing one student who was in a hammock hanging from the column.Portland Fire & Rescue said two other people were injured...
Aug 24 2022 // Uvalde school district and a litany of law enforcement agencies could face $27 billion class-action lawsuit over shooting which was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that...
Aug 23 2022 // Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder has withdrawn a lawsuit he filed against leaders of Virginia Commonwealth University following a public personnel dispute in which Wilder had pushed for the firing of an employee he accused...