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A New Berlin, WI English teacher is facing felony charges on two counts of sexual assault of a student, per WISN. It is believed that Sara Domres, 28, and one of her former students had a relationship that lasted nearly a year before

A Texas school district fired the campus police officer caught on tape allegedly body slamming a 12-year-old girl. They cited inconsistencies between the officer’s report of the incident and a 30-second cellphone video which captured it. Meanwhile, the purported victim appeared to brag about her newfound fame and fortune over social media following a national news appearance related to the incident.

The American Library Association (ALA) has The Holy Bible on its list of the top 10 most “challenged” books for the first time in 10 years.

A Utah high school teacher, who in 2015 pleaded guilty to having an inappropriate relationship with three of her teenaged students, said in a letter to the court that after their relationship started, one of the boys began to get better grades.

A Swedish member of parliament has expressed his frustration after revelations a Swedish school engaged in social engineering to change the political views of their young pupils. Sweden Democrat (SD) member of parliament Kent Ekeroth said the actions of the

Using some of his most powerful language to date, Pope Francis has joined the American College of Pediatricians in denouncing the transgender ideology behind contemporary ideas of fluid sexual identity among children. In his new letter on marriage and the

Baton Rouge Police say one of the Southern University students was pronounced dead at the scene. The other died shortly after. Both were 19 years old.

An 18-year-old high school student in Florida was arrested after engaging in a fight with another student, police said. Upon investigation, police discovered the brawler had 62 suspensions and 102 disciplinary actions on his school record.

One Texas school district admits cybercriminals hacked into their records multiple times and across 20 of its campuses, attempting to hold data for ransom. To their knowledge, no pertinent confidential student data was seized; however, the news of these attacks has some parents worried.

A Bedford County, Virginia, high school sparked a student rally in support of the Confederate flag after administrators enforced a ban of the historic banner.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators have arrested a suspect in the killing of a first-year dance student whose body was found in a creek on the University of Texas campus, Austin police said Friday.

Texas officials identified the female student found dead on the University of Texas at Austin campus Tuesday, but they offered little else in regards to information about the male suspected of her murder besides his image captured on a campus surveillance camera. Police have asked the public for help in capturing this person of interest.

Duke University has finally put their foot down after students rejected the administration’s decision to not terminate the school’s executive vice president over a 2014 incident where he allegedly used a racial slur against a university employee.

A Texas public school district launched an investigation into a possible case of excessive force following the release of a cellphone video that captured one of its police officers struggling to restrain a sixth grade female student. It then appeared he slammed her to the ground.

A group of Democratic legislators in Virginia are demanding George Mason University not rename its law school after recently deceased Justice Antonin Scalia.

Swiss citizens have been outraged by the decision of a school board to allow Muslim pupils to refuse to shake hands with their teachers. On Sunday the phone number and email address of Swiss school headmaster Jürg Lauener was posted to

MSNBC host Chris Matthews pressed former Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton (D), who is supporting Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on how Sanders will pay for his free college tuition program, which prompted Lawton to say that she

On Monday, students at Indiana University Bloomington mistook a priest for a Ku Klux Klan member, taking to social media to express their fear of the alleged Klansman, who they claimed was carrying a whip, and dressed in “white robes.”

An afternoon dismissal pickup policy change at one Texas elementary school has a lot of parents rip-roaring mad. It forbids them from walking their own children home at the end of the school day. Breaking this rule can result in trespassing charges or truancy classes for mom and dad.

The Board of Trustees at Princeton University decided not to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs after significant pressure from student activists to remove President Wilson’s name from the school due to Wilson’s segregationist views.

San Francisco State University has said that it is investigating an altercation between two students which was captured on video, that showed a black female physically harassing a white male for having dreadlocks.

Schools should consider introducing gender-neutral toilets to make transgender pupils feel more included, a teaching union representative has said. This morning her union voted in favour of schools doing more to explore trans issues with pupils, including celebrating “trans role

Conservative professor John McAdams is under threat of termination from liberal university president Michael Lovell of the Jesuit-run Marquette University. McAdams is not taking the threat lightly and has fired off a blistering letter to his boss.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that the Department of Education “can be largely eliminated. Now, you maybe want to have a little bit of tentacles out there” on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Trump said, [relevant remarks

School district officials investigate a bevy of brawls that broke out at a Texas all-girls academy this week, discovered because the cellphone shot videos of them were prominently posted on social media as part of a happening called “Beat Week.”

An Edinburgh university student has told how she was accused of violating Safe Space policy and almost ejected from a meeting – because she raised her arms and shook her head. The incident highlights the increasingly hair-trigger sensibilities of students

Just ten days after the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) issued a stern statement warning of the dangers that gender ideology poses to children and adolescents, Planned Parenthood began a campaign on social media to “train the next generation of trans allies.”

It’s one of the oldest degrees on offer in the world, but from next September undergraduate theology students at Oxford University will no longer have to study Christianity beyond the first year of their degree.  Instead they will be able

Harvard is not stopping at recognizing the history of slavery. Instead, Faust announced, Harvard will acknowledge the “legacy” of slavery into the present day.

In a lecture at Harvard Law School on Monday, Loretta A. Preska, chief judge of the U.S. District Court of Southern New York, said she was concerned about the decreasing tolerance for speech on American university campuses.

Americans born in the U.S. are more likely to have a high school education or higher, compared to foreign-born people living in the U.S., but slightly less likely to have an advanced degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In

Conservatives suffered their first major loss Tuesday resulting from the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, as the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on the First Amendment rights of teachers union members.

The Department of Justice has announced that 12 current and former Detroit public school principals, one school supply vendor, and one administrator have been indicted for engaging in a scheme worth one million dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

Authorities have charged a teacher in Moore, Oklahoma, with forcible sodomy of her underage student.

The Common Core standards initiative is part of the progressive push to centralize education, says the Heritage Foundation in a new report – a compilation of essays by experts in education policy in the United States.

A litigious atheist organization known for its lawsuits challenging Christian prayer and symbols in public spaces and Bibles in public schools is now voicing objection to the designation of a Muslim prayer space at the University of Iowa (UI).