Latest Education Headlines
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University of Vermont Medical Center Continuing Cyber Attack Recovery
Dec 1 2020 // The University of Vermont Medical Center is continuing to recover from the cyber attack late last month that crippled access to electronic records at the Burlington hospital. On Tuesday, the hospital said it had...
University of Pennsylvania Vows $100M to Fix School Building Hazards
Nov 25 2020 // The University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will contribute $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia over the next decade to deal with environmental hazards such as asbestos and lead in school...
University of California Reaches $73M Sex Abuse Settlement
Nov 18 2020 // The prestigious University of California system has reached a proposed $73 million settlement with seven women who accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse. As part of the class-action lawsuit, more than 6,600...
Kansas College Settles Discrimination Lawsuit Over Athlete Recruitment
Nov 17 2020 // A small community college in northeast Kansas has settled a lawsuit accusing it of directing coaches to recruit more white athletes and subjecting Black students to excessive scrutiny such as background checks before...
Young E&S Professionals Face Toughest Market They Have Ever Seen
Nov 16 2020 // Wholesaler brokers of all ages are facing hard market conditions with rising insurance rates, tighter underwriting and fewer carriers willing to write some tough classes. They, like everyone, are also experiencing fewer...
Court Upholds Harvard’s Use of Race in Admissions; Opponents Eye Supreme Court
Nov 13 2020 // A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvard University’s use of race in undergraduate admissions, rejecting a challenge by affirmative action opponents who said the Ivy League school’s policy discriminates...
Investigation Into North Carolina Community College Cyberattack Ongoing
Nov 3 2020 // A data breach at a North Carolina community college may have affected many of its current and former students. The Greensboro News & Records reported last week that Guilford Technical Community College was hit with a...
Jerry Falwell Jr. Files Suit Against Liberty University Claiming Reputational Damage
Oct 30 2020 // The former president and chancellor of Liberty University (LU), Jerry Falwell Jr., is suing the school for reputational damage following his August resignation, according to a complaint filed in the Commonwealth of...
South Dakota School District to Pay $50K to Settle Suit with Former Employee
Oct 30 2020 // The Douglas School District in Box Elder, S.D., will pay a former district employee $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in February 2019, representatives from both sides said on Oct. 27. Patrick Ealy said he was wrongly...
Texas’ Fairly Group Offering COVID-19 Insurance for College Sports Programs
Oct 26 2020 // Amarillo, Texas-based Fairly Group and its sister-company OccuNet have unveiled an insurance product that covers medical expenses for collegiate student athletes who contract COVID-19. Inspired by the viral #wewanttoplay...
CRC Group Funds National Alliance High School Program at Duncanville ISD
Oct 26 2020 // Austin, TX, October 26, 2020 – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research announces the launch of the CISR High School Program at Duncanville ISD in Texas. Over one hundred 11th and 12th grade...
Family Settles Suit Over Death of South Carolina High School Football Player
Oct 23 2020 // A South Carolina family has settled a lawsuit filed after a 14-year-old high school football player collapsed after an intense practice and died, news outlets reported. The suit, filed against Lexington County School...
Dean of S.C. Law School Apologizes for Emailing Private Student Bar Results
Oct 20 2020 // The dean of South Carolina’s largest law school is apologizing for forwarding an email that contained the names of students who failed the exam to become a lawyer and the confidential bar exam grades of every...
South Carolina School District Faces $3M in Repairs from Mold Damage
Oct 20 2020 // Officials for a South Carolina school district say it could cost up to $3 million to fix damage and prevent the future spread of mold that was discovered in two buildings. Construction workers found the mold from high...
Ohio State Doc Sex Abuse Case Settlements Now Top $46M
Oct 16 2020 // Ohio State University will pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits by about two dozen more survivors over decades-old sexual abuse by a now-deceased team doctor, Richard Strauss — bringing the total settlements so far to...
U.S. Sues Yale University Claiming Illegal Favoritism for Blacks, Hispanics in Admissions
Oct 9 2020 // Yale University was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims the Ivy League school illegally discriminates against White and Asian-American applicants in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Hispanic...
Georgia Extends Virus State of Emergency Until November
Oct 5 2020 // Georgia’s governor extended his emergency rules regarding COVID-19 again Wednesday as the state surpassed 7,000 deaths from the respiratory illness. Gov. Brian Kemp extended the underlying state of emergency that...
Arkansas Elementary School Teacher Dies From Coronavirus
Oct 5 2020 // An Arkansas teacher died from COVID-19, her husband said Friday, the second coronavirus death from the state’s public schools this week. Susanne Michael, 47, an elementary school teacher from Harrisburg, died...
Florida Supreme Court Caps High School Shooting Liability at $300K
Sep 29 2020 // The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school district can’t be forced to pay more than $300,000 total to the victims or their families in the Parkland high school massacre that left 17 people dead and...
Hauser Pleads Guilty in College Admission Plot
Sep 25 2020 // A California businessman with ties to an Ohio-based insurance agency who is said to have steered “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, to the ringleader of the...
