Corissa McCalister, 22, took a plea deal in which she admitted to the assault in exchange for a sentence of two years’ probation and 80 hours of community service, according to local CBS affiliate WTRF. MORE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville mother, Edith Riddle, 34, is charged with child abuse after a fight with another student on the campus of Dupont Middle School last week, a Jacksonville police arrest report states. MORE
Nearly one year into the pandemic, an estimated one in three K-12 students in the U.S. do not currently have any options for in-person schooling. Many frustrated parents have been vocally pushing for a return MORE
It took a direct call from President Biden and significant concessions to get the senator on board. The Senate was more than two hours into a vote on Friday afternoon as Jon Tester and several MORE
Says it makes it ‘easier for mothers to come out of the home’! BOISE, Idaho — March is Women’s History Month and on Tuesday, one Idaho state representative voted against accepting federal grants to help MORE
Thought He ‘Was Logged Out When Class Was Over’! That’s the claim being made by teaching assistant Mark Schack who was caught on video masturbating for 13 seconds at the end of a video lesson MORE
DATELINE: BOARDMAN, Ohio – According to a police report, officers took a report at the police station on Jan. 20 from Sheli Myers. She told officers that her son with autism was very “shook up” MORE
“DeVos says free college amounts to a ‘socialist takeover of higher education…” [In a veiled swing at President-elect Joe Biden’s education plans] Education Secretary Betsy DeVos slammed free college as a “socialist takeover of higher MORE
On Thursday, Trump threw out a ton of red meat for his rabid, racist base by signing an executive order that will establish a commission to promote patriotic education dubbed the 1776 Commission. The 1776 MORE
After a federal judge in Washington D.C. last week ruled that distributing CARES Act funding to private schools was illegal, it appears the Secretary of Education has quietly given up. The Education Department did not MORE
The Trump administration is moving forward with a policy that expands protections for religious groups on college campuses and threatens to cut federal education funding to colleges that violate free speech rules. The rule was MORE
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled that DeVos ran afoul of the CARES Act when she required public schools to send a greater share of pandemic assistance to private school MORE
Trump blamed violent protests in Portland, Ore., and other cities in recent months on “left-wing indoctrination” in schools and universities, while accusing his Democratic presidential challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, of giving “moral aid MORE
A Florida judge on Monday ruled against the state’s order requiring schools to open for in-person instruction by the end of August, calling parts of it “unconstitutional.” He granted a temporary injunction, putting the decision-making MORE
While public schools are trying to figure out how to open during a pandemic, public education advocates are criticizing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for social distancing in her Holland, Michigan, mansion that is protected MORE
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued a rule that says if states want to use the funds to provide services for all students, such as tutoring or extra school buses to allow for social distancing, they must also MORE
Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes MORE
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel are leading a six state lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with claims of unlawful attempt to siphon pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public MORE
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday told the country’s governors in a conference call that she expects schools to be “fully operational” come the fall, regardless of the coronavirus pandemic. “Ultimately, it’s not a matter MORE
Kids once denied special ed being failed again Source: And another one: More than two years after the U.S. Department of Education demanded that Texas education officials provide extra help for thousands of students denied MORE
Grainger Rickenbaker was more than halfway through his freshman year at Drexel University in Philadelphia when the pandemic forced its in-person courses and dormitories to be cleared indefinitely. At his home in South Carolina, Rickenbaker, MORE
Lynchburg, Virginia, isn’t a stereotypical college town. It isn’t politically liberal. It doesn’t have the crunchy affect of an Ann Arbor or even a Charlottesville. But even here, where Liberty University drives a large part MORE
Secretary Devos Claims a Report Showing Charters Average 40% Failure Rate is Fake News, but Doesn’t Know What the Actual Failure Rate is Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday and MORE
When LGBTQ students at Brigham Young University caught wind of the change, they ran to the statue of the university’s namesake to celebrate. Women kissed women and men kissed men on Wednesday, extolling the school’s MORE
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a Shawnee State University professor who alleged his constitutional rights were violated when he was disciplined for refusing to identify a transgender MORE