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Prosecutors have dropped charges against two Rider University officials charged with aggravated hazing in the death of a fraternity pledge.
Prosecutor Skylar Weissman of Mercer County, N.J., told a judge…
Aug 29, 2007 11:23 AM CDT
The school board for the Bethlehem, Pa., area wasn’t sure about paying a $60,670 charge by the board’s legal counsel until they actually saw the bill.
But they were even…
Aug 28, 2007 11:34 PM CDT
Federal privacy and disability laws prohibited high school officials from revealing that the Virginia Tech gunman suffered from a social anxiety disorder.
Fairfax County created a special education plan for…
Aug 27, 2007 4:44 PM CDT
More is needed to help keep students safe on campus, according to reports by three internal Virginia Tech review committees that were released today.
The committees were appointed after a…
Aug 22, 2007 10:56 PM CDT
The New York Attorney General’s office is investigating whether study-abroad agencies pay cash or other incentives to universities.
Lawyer Benjamin Lawsky told the New York Times…
Aug 16, 2007 1:38 PM CDT
Schools throughout the country are having to parse a June Supreme Court decision to decide if they will continue to assign students to schools based on race.
While the high…
Aug 15, 2007 4:29 PM CDT
In what may be the first case of its kind, a dean of students and another Rider University administrator were among five people charged by a Mercer County, N.J., grand…
Aug 6, 2007 4:56 PM CDT
Teaching but not preaching is the goal. But Christian religious instruction reportedly is the reality in many public schools that teach courses that purportedly seek to inform students about the…
Aug 6, 2007 3:23 PM CDT
Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings and an amended law up the ante for parents seeking special education services for their children.
The legal precedents are just one obstacle faced by…
Jul 24, 2007 5:49 PM CDT
So-called trashings aren’t cricket, under Oxford University rules. But neither is the method the renowned British college is now using to discipline its students for dousing others with champagne, flour…
Jul 17, 2007 8:40 PM CDT
Three senior administrators including Eastern Michigan University’s president have been fired and an in-house lawyer has been reprimanded, in response to reports finding that the Ypsilanti institution violated federal law…
Jul 17, 2007 5:37 PM CDT
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is asking the ABA to explain how it applies a diversity standard when assessing whether law schools meet accreditation requirements.
In a letter obtained by
More school districts are likely to consider income as a race neutral way to achieve school diversity in the wake of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision striking down two school integration…
Jun 29, 2007 5:48 PM CDT
Updated: In perhaps the most-anticipated ruling of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped back into the debate over affirmative action, ruling in a 5-4 decision that two public schools…
Jun 28, 2007 5:12 PM CDT
Officials at Eastern Michigan University apparently suspected all along that Laura Dickinson was murdered. And there was good reason to do so.
The body of the 22-year-old student was found,…
Jun 19, 2007 10:56 PM CDT
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