Mitchell and the administration at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School have been at odds over the latter's "selective screening" admissions policy, which Mitchell has argued is discriminatory against students of protected classes such as immigrants and students with special needs...
Three former employees of The Laradon School have filed a lawsuit against the school because they claim repeated violent sexual assaults while working as educators. Laradon is located in Denver and serves students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Two of the plaintiffs i...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A lawsuit filed against Springfield Public Schools’ Board of Education, the superintendent and SPS board members states the re-entry plan for the fall semester is harmful to students and does not provide equal access to education. Springfield Attorney Kristi Fulnecky is spear...
Two religious schools and three Orthodox Jewish parents whose children have autism filed the lawsuit against the California Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District last year. The parents sought to send their children to Orthodox Jewish scho...
proclaimed during debate over the bill that it 'seeks to have a display of God's law in the classroom for children to see what He says is right and what He says is wrong.'"The law, the complaint alleges, "sends the harmful and religiously divisive message that students who do not sub...
former students, initially accused more than a dozen elite universities with price fixing. Twelve schools have since settled. The motion on Tuesday seeks class-action status for the case against the remaining five schools: MIT, Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown and Cornell University...
Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools. Georgetown’s then-president, for example, listed a prospective student on his “president’s list”...
Texas bars abortion at all stages of pregnancy and has been one of the most aggressive states at pushing back against abortion rights. It began enforcing astate law in 2021— even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door to ...
He spent summers working at Camp Waban, a day camp for children with intellectual disabilities, putting him on a career path as a special education teacher. While teaching in Gorham, Boutilier took a group of special education students to compete in the inaugural Special Olympics founded by ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yet another civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against a Missouri Christian boarding school by a former student accuses staffers of forced child labor, physical abuse and tactics aimed at hiding mistreatment from authorities.