UCLA’s medical school is being sued for racial discrimination in admissions. The class action lawsuit was filed Thursday. A federal class-action lawsuit accuses UCLA’s medical school and various university officials of using race as a factor in admissions, despite a state law and Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in...
Over the past weekend, several candidates in suburban Texas school districts who opposed book bans won their elections, defeating conservative officials who had supported and implemented such policies in recent years. Book bans in the Lone Star State have largely targeted titles with LGBTQ themes, Black or Brown characters, or authors of the same backgrounds....
Jane Douglas BBC News, South West BBC Ernesettle Community School has been running a pilot project for five years A programme helping educate pupils at a Plymouth school about child sexual abuse is “helping to stop the silence” on the issue, according to children’s charity the NSPCC. Ernesettle Community School is the first in the...
Hattie McCann BBC News, Devon BBC The cast has been rehearsing for 14 weeks, with only a month to go until curtain up The cast has been rehearsing for 14 weeks, with only a month to go until curtain up A secondary school in Devon has won a competition to be allowed to put on...
Family photo A body believed to be that of Layton Carr, 14, was located inside the burned building The death of a teenage boy in an industrial building fire, which led to the arrest of 14 children, has left staff and pupils at his school “heartbroken”. A body, believed to be that of Layton Carr,...
India’s human rights body is investigating reports that more than 100 children fell ill from eating a school lunch after a dead snake was found in the food. The cook reportedly still served the lunch despite removing the dead animal from it, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement. The commission said...
BBC Darrel Campbell restrained the girl after the attack while she still had a knife in her hand “I’ve had countless sleepless nights. The incident is like it happened yesterday,” said Mr Campbell, who held onto the girl after the attack while she still had a knife in her hand. “As soon as I saw...
David Spereall BBC News, Yorkshire Family handout Harvey Willgoose died after being stabbed in the chest at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield A 15-year-old boy has admitted stabbing a student to death at a school in Sheffield. Harvey Willgoose, also 15, died after being stabbed in the chest at All Saints Catholic High...
Kate McGough Education producer Kate McGough / BBC Planned changes to school uniform policy will affect over four million pupils across England, according to new estimates from the Department for Education (DfE). The government says seven in 10 secondary schools and 35% of primary schools in England will have to reduce the number of compulsory...
A man has been arrested in relation to threatening messages being sent to school settings on social media, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers arrested a man in Exeter on suspicion of malicious communication offences and they are “not seeking anyone else in connection to this matter”. Officers said news of the...
Koh Ewe and Hanna Samosir BBC News Reporting fromSingapore and Jakarta Getty Images Indonesia’s new school feeding programme is shaping up to be the most expensive of its kind Indonesia is on an ambitious mission to offer free meals to 80 million school children – but that hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Nearly 80...
Reuters Armed French officers were seen outside the school on Thursday One student has been killed and at least three people were injured in a stabbing at a private school in western France, French media say. The attack took place at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in Nantes on Thursday afternoon, according to reports. The attacker is said...
AFP François Bayrou told reporters it was unbearable for him as a father that the abuse took place and was not known about French Prime Minister François Bayrou says his eldest daughter’s revelation that she was among children who were abused at a Roman Catholic school “stabs him to the heart as a father”. Hélène...
U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments today in a case regarding religious parents’ objections to their students having to participate in a school district’s LGBTQ-inclusive language arts curriculum. Conservative Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, sued the public school district, alleging that, because they weren’t allowed to opt their children out...
China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC. Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for attacking the boy, who had been walking to a Japanese school in south-eastern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The case had sent shockwaves through...