Teachers suing NYC over school closings
Unions representing teachers and principals are suing the New York City to stop the official closing of 24 schools, arguing education officials are pretending to shutter the schools…
Litigation
Parents of boy forcibly tattooed sue school district
The parents of a New Hampshire teenager who was assaulted and forcibly tattooed on the buttocks by four older students during school hours have filed suit against the…
Experts unlike ruling in Facebook speech case
The "like" button on Facebook seems like a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that doesn't mean clicking it is…
Kid cheats; Father sues school district
A high school sophomore supposedly cheated on homework. He was kicked out of his honors English class, and his father doesn't deny the cheating occurred. But that's not…
School cyberbullying victims fight back in lawsuits
When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her there was not much they could…
Middle school girls expelled over Facebook jokes ‘to kill’ peers seek repeal
Three eighth-graders from northwest Indiana who say they were expelled after joking on Facebook about which of their classmates they would like to kill asked a federal judge…
Middle school student nets $4.2 million settlement for bully’s paralyzing punch
A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched…
U.S. sues Apple, publishers over eBook prices
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 15 states sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers April 11, alleging a ... Read more
Gay student sues Ohio school district over T-shirt
A gay student whose southwest Ohio high school prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays is suing the school, saying it's violating his…
Boy’s “wish” to blow up school warrants suspension, court says
A New York school district acted properly in suspending a 10-year-old boy who during a class exercise wrote in crayon that he wanted to "blow up the school…
Middle school girl sues Pennsylvania district over school drug tests
A central Pennsylvania middle school student is suing her district over a drug testing policy that's required if she wants to participate in choir and other activities, the…
Former Rutgers student convicted in webcam spying case
A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's love life was convicted of invasion of privacy and anti-gay intimidation March…
Justice Dept. may sue Apple, publishers on eBook pricing
The Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of…
Rutgers student who secretly videotaped roommate texted friend about ‘viewing party’
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Ex-Philly school official says he was fired for whistle-blowing
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Online learning provider K12 faces class-action lawsuit
After a recent New York Times article implied that online learning giant K12 Inc. focuses more on its bottom line than student performance, the company now faces a…
Watch: Chicago teacher sues for the right to say N-word in class
Lincoln Brown, a 48-year-old Chicago Public Schools teacher, has filed a federal lawsuit against the district after being suspended without pay for five days for using the "n-word"…
Illinois court: Tenured CPS teachers don’t have rehire rights
According to the Associated Press, in a 5-2 vote this Friday, the Illinois Supreme Court has made a ruling that laid-off tenured teachers in the Chicago Public Schools…
Homeless mother to plead guilty in school residency case
The lawyer for a Connecticut woman charged with enrolling her son in the wrong school district says she will be pleading guilty, the Associated Press reports.
Lawsuit seeks to block Google’s privacy changes
A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month, the Associated…
Supreme Court passes on chance to define students’ online free-speech rights
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a set of cases for the digital age—whether schools may censor students who are off-campus when they create online…
Ariz schools’ ethnic studies program ruled illegal
An administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that a Tucson school district's ethnic studies program violates state law, agreeing with the findings of Arizona's public schools chief, the Associated…
Districts file third suit against state over school funding
A third group of Texas schools filed suit against the state Tuesday over education funding, alleging that the system of financing public education is inadequate and unfair to…
District faces civil rights claims after allegedly ‘outing’ lesbian student
After facing lawsuits from Barbara Wyatt, who claimed the Kilgore Independent School District in Tyler, Texas "aggressively confronted" her 16-year-old daughter about her sexual orientation after hearing a…
HIV positive boy denied admission sues Hershey school
The family of an HIV-positive boy sued a boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania after it denied admission to the 13-year-old citing safety concerns, a school official said on…
Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft
Microsoft’s Bill Gates returns to the witness stand on Nov. 22 to defend his company against a $1 billion antitrust ... Read more
Federal Judge: School can censor student display of American flag
A federal court has ruled that school administrators had the right to order California high school students to remove displays of the American flag from their clothing on…
Judge: Facebook post should cost job of NJ teacher
A New Jersey administrative law judge has ruled that a first-grade teacher who wrote that she was a "warden for future criminals" on Facebook earlier this year should…
Teachers fired for reporting abuse, lawsuit claims
Two teachers, including a former teacher of the year, are suing the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami claiming they were fired for reporting suspected sex abuse involving the principal…
Florida students of undocumented immigrants sue for in-state tuition
College students in Florida who were born in America to undocumented immigrants say they're getting financially shafted by the state, the Huffington Post reports.
Feds to hear Va Tech appeal in Dec.
The U.S. Department of Education has scheduled a December hearing to take up Virginia Tech's appeal of fines it received for failing to notify campus sooner during a…
School district caught banking federal food funds
A Los Angeles-area school district accused of misspending $1.5 million in federal meal money for needy students is planning to meet with state administrators this week in an…
Student sues school to remove prayer banner, says her case is ‘very strong’
A 16-year-old atheist said Thursday she is confident the law is on her side in her fight over a prayer mural that she wants removed from the auditorium…
Okla. school official tweets: Educators ‘dirtbags’
Oklahoma's schools superintendent said Thursday that her chief of staff calling school administrators "dirtbags" in a personal Twitter post was a "poor choice of words"—but called a lawsuit…
Defendant’s social networking trail makes Rutgers case unique
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Groups sue Virginia school board for posting Ten Commandments
Civil-liberties groups are suing a southwest Virginia school board for posting the Ten Commandments, contending that the display violates the Constitution's guarantee of separation of church and state,…
Authors Guild sues universities over online books
Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Sept. 12, seeking to stop…
AT&T, DOJ square off in a battle with implications for schools
The Justice Department’s rejection of AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA will test new federal guidelines on challenging mergers, as ... Read more
Lawsuit accuses security guard of handcuffing first-graders for talking in class
The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday that the boy was among several 6- and…
Missouri teachers sue over social networking law
A Missouri teachers' union said Aug. 19 that it is challenging a controversial new state measure that restricts teachers' use of social networking sites and their contact with…