Latest Education Headlines
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The Insurance Data War: How Old School and New School Can Live in Harmony
Apr 11 2022 // Old school vs. new school. Every so often, a debate echoes down the corridor of time as the disrupters of the status quo burst on the scene with novel ways of doing things, while the established players cling to the tried...
Police Investigate Allegations of Women’s Rugby Team Hazing at Vermont University
Apr 5 2022 // Police in Vermont are investigating allegations of hazing involving the women’s rugby team at Norwich University, authorities said. Multiple law enforcement agencies went to a residence hall at the private military...
Appeals Court Upholds $25M Judgment Against College in Ohio
Apr 5 2022 // An Ohio appeals court has upheld a $25 million judgment for a business that successfully claimed it was libeled by Oberlin College in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident that roiled the historic liberal arts school and...
University of Missouri System Agrees to $1.5 Million Discrimination Settlement
Mar 22 2022 // The University of Missouri System has paid a $1.57 million settlement to a white former employee who alleged she was removed from her job in favor of a younger, Black woman. Rachel Brown was 60 when she was removed from...
Bus Carrying College Golf Teams Crashes in Texas, Leaving 9 Dead
Mar 17 2022 // A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing nine people, authorities said. The vehicles collided the night of March 15 in...
University’s Governmental Immunity Extends to Parking Lot, Maine Supreme Court Rules
Mar 16 2022 // The state cannot be held liable for injuries sustained in a parking lot that is regularly used by people accessing a public building, the Maine Supreme Court has ruled. On March 15, in Klein v. University of Maine System,...
Online University Paying $22M in California Suit for Misleading Students
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
District of Columbia Regulator Expands Internships to Gallaudet Students
Mar 3 2022 // Gallaudet University and the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) announced that Gallaudet students will have expanded opportunities to gain practical work experience in municipal...
Supreme Court Denies Christian College’s Ministerial Exception From Lawsuit… for Now
Mar 1 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by a Massachusetts Christian college seeking a religious “ministerial exception” to help it avoid a discrimination lawsuit brought by a professor denied a...
Washington School Bus Carrier Could be Fined $364K for Safety Violations
Feb 28 2022 // Washington state regulators found more than 600 safety and procedural violations by school bus carrier First Student in the past two years, dozens of which persisted for years after company officials were warned of the...
Virginia School Board to Appeal Judge’s Ruling Blocking Elite School’s Admissions Policy
Feb 28 2022 // A federal judge ruled Friday that a Virginia school system illegally discriminated against Asian Americans when it overhauled the admissions policies at an elite public school. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Claude...
School District in Washington Offers $34M in Toxic Exposure Case
Feb 21 2022 // The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The district proposed the settlement in November under court seal,...
Texas Supreme Court Rules Golf Cart Accident Isn’t Covered in District’s Auto Liability Policy
Feb 14 2022 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that injuries suffered in a golf cart at a school isn’t covered in an auto liability policy held by the school district. In Pharr–San Juan–Alamo Independent School District,...
Kansas University Settles Free-Speech Lawsuit
Feb 14 2022 // Haskell Indian Nations University has settled a lawsuit filed after a former university president sought to dictate what student journalists could report and write. Free-speech advocates said the settlement agreement with...
Florida Teacher Dies Day After Being Hit by SUV Outside High School
Feb 14 2022 // A Florida teacher died Friday, a day after being struck by an SUV and trapped underneath it in the back parking lot of a Tampa Bay area high school, officials said. The Pasco County School District announced the death of...
Suit by 3 Students Alleges Harvard University Ignored Sexual Harassment
Feb 11 2022 // Three Harvard University graduate students said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Ivy League school for years ignored complaints about sexual harassment by a renowned professor and allowed him to intimidate...
UCLA Settling Gynecologist Sex Abuse Lawsuit for $246M
Feb 9 2022 // The University of California has agreed to pay $246.3 million to settle allegations that hundreds of women were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist, lawyers and the university announced Tuesday. The settlement...
School District in Washington Offers $34M in Toxic Exposure Case
Feb 9 2022 // The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The Seattle Times reports the district proposed the settlement in...
Group of Ohio State Sex Abuse Survivors Appeal Lawsuit Dismissal
Feb 7 2022 // The inappropriate behavior of a long-dead Ohio State team doctor went unrecognized as sexual abuse until only recently and hence a deadline for suing the university over the abuse has not passed, a group of survivors argue...
South Carolina House Doubles Fines for Passing Stopped School Bus
Feb 7 2022 // The South Carolina House has approved a bill that increases the penalties for passing a stopped school bus and requires all buses to have longer stop sign arms to extend across a lane of traffic. The bill approved on a...
