A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida law that required students to get their parents’ permission before being excused from the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Arizona legislature is scrambling for a way to pay Kenneth Starr’s $910 an hour fee to defend the state’s spending on students who speak another language.
A sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a 13-year-old Arizona girl who was subjected to a strip search in which middle school officials tried in…
The case of a high school computer hacker in Orange County, Calif., has attracted international attention, apparently because of the audacity of his alleged grade-changing attacks—and the hefty prison time…
The Florida Attorney General’s Office has contacted a Florida woman whose misbehaving autistic 5-year-old son was expelled from class last week based on a vote of his classmates.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against a junior high school in Harper Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Ala.
Updated: A Florida woman is considering a lawsuit after a teacher allowed students to take a vote on whether her misbehaving autistic son should remain in class.
Zelma Henderson, the sole surviving plaintiff in the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday. She was 88.
The former general counsel of Florida Gulf Coast University sued her former client in federal court in April, alleging systemic employment discrimination and violation of…
Updated: It almost had to happen. Targeted in an ongoing investigated by the New York attorney general’s office as well as other state and federal agencies over possible public benefits…
Updated: “Hundreds and hundreds” of New York lawyers will be implicated in a statewide scheme in which non-employees have improperly been enrolled in the public pension system, the state attorney…
For some lawyers at one Albany, N.Y., area law firm, getting a public pension for a no-show school district job was a standard “perk of partnership,” a state prosecutor said…
After the arrest of 75 students and 21 others in a massive drug bust centered on San Diego State University, the school has suspended six fraternities pending a further investigation…
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