The family of a nine-year-old Pasco School District special needs student is filing a federal lawsuit against the Pasco School District (PSD) after they say a PSD teacher allegedly abused the student. The family filed a complaint Monday saying Ratree Albers, special education teacher at Robert Frost Elementary in February of 2014 abused students in her care, according …
Seven months before former Richland County sheriff’s deputy Ben Fields made national news by pulling a student from her chair and tossing her in a Spring Valley High School classroom, Fields caused the unlawful arrest of an innocent woman who was helping another Spring Valley student, a lawsuit in federal court alleges. Although Fields got an arrest warrant for the woman, Holly Johnson, a …
Fourteen parents whose children were retained in third grade after they “opted out” of Florida’s standardized tests filed a lawsuit this week, saying their rights were violated by confusing standards that rely too much on a single exam. The lawsuit says Education Commissioner Pam Stewart, the state Department of Education, the state Board of Education and several local …
A male student has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado claiming the college discriminated against him during a sexual assault investigation that ultimately led to his expulsion. The male student, identified in court documents only as John Doe, denies allegations that he sexually assaulted two female CU students and claims in the lawsuit that CU’s student- …
A Christian student group is suing North Carolina State University over a policy they say requires members to get a permit to talk to their classmates about Jesus. Grace Christian Life, a religious student group long recognized by the 35,000-student school in Raleigh, claimed in a federal suit that school officials barred members last September from evangelizing to people on campus. The …
A trial begins Monday in a hazing lawsuit that a former Bowie State University student filed against Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The former student, Kevin Hayes, filed the lawsuit in 2014, saying the fraternity should have made sure its chapters and members followed its anti-hazing rules. The $3 million lawsuit claims Hayes was beaten, body-slammed and spanked with a wooden paddle on a daily …
When Jane C. Forrester Winne’s federal student loans were dismissed after she became disabled because of complications from diabetes in 2011, she believed all the money she borrowed between 1980 and 2008 to attend the University of Maine had been accounted for and that she was free and clear of debt. Three years later, Forrester Winne, 64, of Orono began getting letters and …
A student is suing Birmingham City Schools and the Board of Education — for failing to protect her from an alleged predator, her history teacher at Huffman High School The lawsuit claims that teacher was asking female students for sex – in exchange for better grades. Attorney Julian Hendrix says he knows of at least five students who were approached in this reported …
Families involved in the lawsuit standby during Wednesday’s press conference. Last year, Illinois’ District 211 fought hard to maintain discrimination against a transgender girl (identified only as “Student A”) who simply wanted access to …
A father says his 15-year-old son was walking between classes at Desert Oasis High School one morning in January 2014, listening to music in his headphones, when an older classmate attacked him from behind and sent him to the hospital with a broken nose, a concussion and a head wound that required seven staples. Now James Hensley, the boy’s father, is pursuing a lawsuit that accuses the Clark …