A Virginia family has filed suit in federal court seeking $8.3 million from the Appomattox County School Board and school employees as a result of a bus bullying incident.
Continue reading...A group of male students at Driver Elementary School were suspended by Suffolk Public Schools officials for pointing pencils at each other and making shooting noises.
Continue reading...On April 29, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in McBurney v. Young that it’s legal for a state to limit use of its Freedom of Information Act to its own residents.
Continue reading...According to the Smith Mountain Eagle, the Virginia House of Delegates has voted 56-43 to allow home-school students to play sports at local public schools.
Continue reading...The Washington Post reports that after Fairfax County school teacher Sean Lanigan was acquitted of molesting a 12-year-old girl in 2010, he asked the Fairfax school district to reimburse his legal fees, as Virginia law allows.
Continue reading...As reported in The Washington Post, Virginia State Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne has denied two Leesburg communities’ petition challenging the Loudoun County School Board’s rezoning plan, which altered boundaries so that more than 600 students were assigned to the new Frederick Douglass Elementary School.
Continue reading...According to the Newport News Daily Press, new achievement objectives for Virginia’s Standards of Learning have upset the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, which called them “insulting and narrow minded” in a letter to Governor Bob McDonnell.
Continue reading...The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports that a federal district court judge has approved a settlement in a lawsuit that sought to remove the Ten Commandments from the walls of a southwest Virginia high school.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports in The Washington Post that the Fairfax County School Board has agreed to pay more than $72,000 in legal fees to teacher Sean Lanigan.
Continue reading...According to the Associated Press (AP) in The Virginian-Pilot, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Urbanski has sent a suit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments at Narrows High School to mediation.
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