A former Lansing Eastern High student says school administrators acted with indifference after an all-state football player raped her on school grounds. She said school officials ignored concerns that she was in danger and that their failure to promptly respond and investigate subjected her to harassment and a hostile environment. …
The family of a teenage football player in Idaho is suing the high school for $10 million after the boy was allegedly raped by his teammates, with the lawsuit claiming the horrific crime was racially motivated. On Oct. 23, three white students at Dietrich High School allegedly restrained their 18-year-old black teammate and put a coat hanger into his rectum, followed by one of the assailants …
Georgia has joined other states in a lawsuit against the recent federal directive about transgender students in public bathrooms and locker rooms. The lawsuit announced Wednesday also includes Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.. The challenge comes in response to a federal “guidance” to U.S. schools this month to let transgender …
Utah has now joined nine other states in a lawsuit against the White House over its new transgender directive in schools. Nine other states and three individual school districts have joined the federal lawsuit, according to the lawsuit , which was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of …
Texas and 10 other states are suing the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. (AP) Eleven states and state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Obama administration over federal guidance directing schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms and …
A backlash against this year’s STAAR exams escalated Monday when a group of parents sued the state in an attempt to keep schools from using 2016 test scores to rate students — including deciding whether students should advance to the next grade or attend summer school. The lawsuit, filed against the Texas Education Agency in Travis County district court, argues that this year’s scores are …
The story of Emilie Olsen — and the lawsuit surrounding her suicide — is back in the national spotlight. The Washington Post posted a report Monday that details the case and asks the question: “After years of alleged bullying, an Ohio teen killed herself. Is her school district responsible?”
The victim at the center of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Virginia Wesleyan College took to the stand Monday describing what she called five hours of brutal rape. The victim, known as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, is suing the school for negligence, and is blaming them for creating an environment that made it easy for sexual assaults. The …
A Texa girl, 12, was injured by rope around her neck during an overnight campout with her sixth-grade classmates. (Photo : Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A Texas mother filed a lawsuit against a private school after her black 12-year-old daughter came home from an overnight school outing with severe neck burn. She suspected that her daughter was a victim of a racially motivated bullying, however, …
Bolstered by a recent court ruling in Kearney’s favor, her lawyers say they’ll vigorously push for sworn statements from Brown, former athletic director DeLoss Dodds, former school president Bill Powers and current women’s athletic director Chris Plonsky over how school officials handled both cases. “We will go as high as we have to go,” Kearney attorney Jody Mask said. “No one will be off …