Thousands of Texas students who get in fights or disrupt class end up in court, exemplifying a trend that some critics call the criminalization of student discipline.
Graduates of New York Law School and Cooley Law School, respectively, filed lawsuits against their alma maters claiming that the schools were deceitful in the reporting of their graduate employment…
A school district may be liable for failing to protect a fourth-grade student from a sexual assault by a man who checked her out of school without authorization, a federal…
Twice exonerated by faculty panels of making racist and sexist statements, a Widener University law professor was, however, found by the second panel to have retaliated against the students who…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer says he has seen the evidence that America is becoming increasingly polarized, and it’s colored in red and blue.
A federal appeals court upheld the discipline of a high school student who created a MySpace page targeted at a classmate that described her as a “slut” with herpes.
Over the years, Title IX probes have languished as schools accused of denying females equal access to athletics are asked to investigate themselves and develop their own plans for change.
Steve Stuban at home in the room where Nick’s mom, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, spends most of her time. The hearing that preceeded Nick’s suicide was “aversarial to an extreme,” Stuban says. Photo by James Kegley.
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The Wisconsin Education Association Council today sued to block a law that gives the governor veto powers over rules written by other elected officials and state agencies, including the Department…
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