Ray Head MAYNARDVILLE (WATE) – The mother of a student at Union County High School says the principal and vice-principal received multiple reports of abuse towards her daughter, but chose not to do anything for weeks. The mother, Jodi Cheshire has filed a federal and state lawsuit against former Union County High School teacher Ray Lincoln Head, Union County Principal Linda Harrell and Vice …
Begich Middle School teacher’s aide Julianti Clarke, 62, was charged with abuse in October 2014, after surveillance video showed her fondling a disabled male student in the lunchroom. In November 2015, prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that would let Clarke serve 48 hours of community service and dropped the charges. In a lawsuit filed this week in Anchorage Superior Court, the student’s …
The parties in a federal discrimination lawsuit involving the city’s three public day schools for children with mental health disabilities have filed hundreds of pages of emails, affidavits and other documents this summer as the two sides argue whether the case should be certified as a class-action lawsuit. The two sides in the case have also filed testimony from special education …
A former U.S. Olympian has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging Mike Garrett, the 1965 winner of the Heisman Trophy and former athletics director at USC, sexually harassed her and other female employees at Cal State Los Angeles, where Garrett recently served as the athletic director.
Four Macomb County school districts have requested to join a lawsuit filed by East Detroit Public Schools against the State of Michigan — a lawsuit that seeks to block the appointment of a CEO to take over the academics at four East …
Twelve families, representing Washington’s eight public charter schools – including Excel Public Charter School in Kent – as well the Washington State Charter Schools Association, filed a collective motion last week to intervene in a recently filed lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the schools. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson also a filed a motion on the state’s behalf last …
Six teenage refugees won a lawsuit Friday that would allow them to attend Lancaster’s McCaskey High School after school administrators allegedly diverted them into an alternative school. The plaintiffs, who range in age from 17 to 21, claimed that they were subject to routine pat-downs and were not properly instructed in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) at the district’s chosen school, …
A STUDENT who slept with his teacher and was even in the birthing suite when she delivered their child has been awarded £4 million in damages in California. The former high school student was paid the seven-figure in one of the largest single-victim sex abuse settlements by a public agency after telling the court he felt “physically” ill when reflecting on how his former teacher Laura …
In what’s become a familiar story, a Catholic school staff member has been fired for entering into a same-sex marriage — and is fighting back with a lawsuit. Kate Drumgoole was dean of guidance and girls’ basketball coach at Paramus Catholic High School, her alma mater, in New Jersey for several years until she was fired in January, reports New Jersey paper The Record. She had married her …
A Pennsylvania school district is being sued for allegedly forcing refugees to attend schools that were unfit to serve their unique educational needs, instead sending them to receive boot camp-style discipline at a private academy. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania announced earlier this summer the federal lawsuit against the School District of Lancaster for “illegally …