Concerned about student violence in the wake of multiple classroom shootings, many school districts have adopted zero-tolerance policies in recent years under which children have been disciplined for displaying so-called…
Five prominent colleges and universities have disclosed during the past year or so that they misreported admissions data to U.S. News and World Report for its college rankings or, in…
After nearly 30 years of litigation over the financing of public schools in Texas, a state-court judge in Austin has decided that the state legislature has failed to meet its…
A bill being proposed in Indiana’s House of Representatives would give school officials the authority to punish students for “delinquent, criminal or tortious” or “juvenile” acts online, even if the…
A Maryland county’s board of education has proposed a policy that would to copyright work created by its staff and students for school–which would mean that even something like a…
Frederick Releford’s mom leaned on a cane Tuesday as she watched her 49-year-old son, wearing a cap and gown over his orange prison garb, walk across a stage along with…
Corrected: Despite efforts by Pennsylvania State University to settle with boys targeted by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, now serving a hefty sentence after being Jan 23, 2013 6:06 PM CST
Corrected: The widow of a man massacred last year, with nearly a dozen others, in a July 20 shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater showing the new Batman movie…
A high school French teacher in Ohio has sued her district, contending that her reassignment to a school that has elementary students constituted disability discrimination because she has a phobic…
The parents of a Washington, D.C., area first-grader who was suspended for a day by his elementary school for reportedly pointing his finger as if it was a gun and…
The year 2012 saw blockbuster decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court. The court will be most remembered for largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (in National Federation…
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