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May 16, 2012
The U.S. Department of Education issued a publication outlining principles for educators, parents and other stakeholders to consider when developing or refining policies to support positive behavioral interventions and avoid the use of restraint and seclusion.
May 16, 2012
No charges were ever filed against a Hopewell Middle School teacher or the then-principal for the abuse of special-needs students. An investigation found that many teachers and school nurses had verbally reported the teacher's abuse of students but the principal “refused to act on their reports.”
May 16, 2012
U.S. Department of Education officials are auditing Roxbury Community College after receiving at least three student reports of crimes that the college failed to report.
May 16, 2012
Joplin Schools will be able to construct five storm shelters and demolish properties it has acquired around destroyed Joplin High thanks to federal Community Development block grants.
May 16, 2012
Wendy Knoebel, a former state University at Albany campus police officer, was given five months of home confinement and three-years’ probation for her role in the cultivation of 100 marijuana plants.
May 15, 2012
Student protestors at the campus of College Lionel Groulx were confronted by police while attempting to block entry to the school after 53 students obtained a court injunction last week ordering their classes to resume.
May 15, 2012
The Florida A&M University marching band will remain on suspension through the 2012-2013 school year while administrators work to restructure it.
May 15, 2012
Andrew Rekdahl, a substitute bus driver for the Issaquah School District, was taken into custody by Homeland Security agents for allegedly possessing and distributing child pornography.
May 15, 2012
The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians are at odds over whether or not officers at California state mental hospitals should be allowed to carry firearms.
May 15, 2012
The city of Cranford will receive a reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for emergency repairs performed on Brookside Place School after Hurricane Irene caused severe damage to the campus.
May 14, 2012
The boys, who are all students at Woodburn High School, reportedly started a fire that burned through the school’s wood and metal shops.
May 14, 2012
A man who was firing a gun near Indiana University was shot by police after he pointed his gun at officers.
May 14, 2012
The parents of Nathan Conner claim that Wright State University police could have prevented his death. Conner's roommates alerted officers to his behavior, but they concluded Conner wasn't suicidal.
May 13, 2012
The financial accounts and Social Security numbers of staff and students at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte were exposed to the Internet, according to a forensic data investigation team.
May 11, 2012
An investigation is launched after one Minnesota Security Hospital patient went missing for 22 hours and another was arrested after reportedly stabbing his mother in a nearby park.
May 11, 2012
One of the bills would require awareness and training materials about human trafficking of children to be given to all local school staff. Another would require campus police to work with local law enforcement to assist in the investigation of deaths and alleged rapes occurring on college campuses.
May 10, 2012
A psych tech and several other staffers at Napa State Hospital were injured on Tuesday when a patient became irritated and fought staffers who tried to calm him.
May 10, 2012
A group of people on the roof of the Sigma Pi frat house threw bottles at the victims and shouted “Come up here, Trayvon,” the victims told police.
May 10, 2012
At the time of drum major Robert Champion’s death, 101 members of Florida A&M's Marching 100 were not enrolled in FAMU's band course, a violation of university rules.
May 10, 2012
School safety legislation spurred by the stabbing of an Elgin High School teacher by a student has stalled in an Illinois Senate criminal law committee.