A suggestive “twerking” video shot on on the grounds of a California high school, using its equipment, has gotten 33 students involved in the video banned from participating in prom,…
Updated: A Florida teen is no longer facing adult felony charges after she caused a small explosion on school grounds in what her friends say was a science experiment gone…
An ABA committee has agreed in principle to a proposed new law school accreditation standard that would raise and simplify the current bar passage requirement.
An Oklahoma school district that placed a special education student in a “timeout room” to stop his unruly behavior did not violate his constitutional rights, a federal appeals court has…
A West Virginia middle school student was arrested and pulled from school Thursday, accused of creating a disruption after he refused a teacher’s demand that he remove a T-shirt that…
A former employee filed a whistleblower suit against Rutgers University in state court in New Jersey on Friday, contending that he suffered retaliation for complaining about mistreatment of basketball players.
Lawyers reacted with disbelief when grand jurors recommended bonds as high as $7.5 million for educators accused in the Atlanta schools cheating scandal.
The lawyer for former schools superintendent Beverly…
The job market for prospective lawyers is even bleaker than the law school employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar…
Barely half of all 2012 law school graduates had full time, long-term legal jobs as of Feb. 15, according to employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA’s Section of…
After a nationwide search, the ABA has chosen Barry Currier, its interim consultant on legal education, as the new managing director of accreditation and legal education for the Section of…
The deceased suspect in the massacre of six educators and 20 first-graders at a Connecticut elementary school last year was armed with a Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle and two semiautomatic handguns,…
Booted out of Oakland University after writing an essay titled “Hot for Teacher” to fulfill a creative writing class assignment, a former student has filed a federal…
The governing council of the ABA’s law school accrediting arm has preliminarily approved two more chapters of a proposed overhaul of the accreditation standards.
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