South Carolina school district reaches an $85,000 settlement agreement with an English teacher who made national headlines after stomping on an American flag in front of his classes and faced dismissal as a result.
Continue reading...School officials at Albany High School have apologized after students were assigned the task of “explaining why Jews are evil” as part of a persuasive writing class. The English teacher responsible for the assignment has been placed on leave and could be terminated.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that an Ohio school district is not liable under either Title IX or Section 1983 for a teacher’s sexual abuse of a student.
Continue reading...According to the Pioneer Press, the St. Paul school district has settled a federal race discrimination suit brought by the families of three former middle school students.
Continue reading...A two-judge panel of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court has ruled that school district officials were justified in terminating an elementary school teacher for posting derogatory remarks on Facebook about her students, including referring to them as “future criminals.”
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports in the Sun Herald that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has heard arguments in a suit over the suspension of a student from a Mississippi school district for posting online a rap song he recorded that accused two coaches of misconduct with female students.
Continue reading...The Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled that a state law making it a crime for a teacher to engage in sexual relations with a student enrolled at the school where the teacher is employed does not unconstitutional.
Continue reading...According to The Gaston Gazette, a North Gaston High School teacher has been suspended after posting her student’s work on Facebook, highlighting their grammar gaffes and misspellings, and commenting on the mistakes.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that a school district is not liable under Title IX for teacher-on-student sexual harassment because teachers’ alerts to a school administrator of their suspicion that a female co-worker had an inappropriate relationship with a student did not constitute actual notice of sexual harassment.
Continue reading...In a 5-2 split, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that two students, who were sexually abused by a teacher, had stated a valid cause of action against the school district that previously employed that teacher based on its duty of care to the students to provide a second district with a factually accurate employment verification form.
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