Houston Chronicle: Remaining TSU cases will be prosecuted
Despite dropping the charge against a Texas Southern University employee indicted with former TSU President Priscilla Slade, prosecutors said Friday that they expect to go forward with cases against Slade and two former senior vice presidents.
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Press-Register: Seven more charged in Bishop State case
Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. on Friday charged seven people with the theft of nearly $56,000 in scholarship and sports program money from Mobile’s Bishop State Community College.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Woman sues PSU over loose moose head
A Fayette County woman has sued Penn State University almost two years after a moose head mounted in a classroom crashed down on her, leaving her with chronic headaches.
Amy Walters, 22, of Uniontown, who was enrolled at Penn State’s Fayette County campus, alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Fayette County Common Pleas Court that the stuffed moose head struck her as she was taking an exam in February 2005.
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The Chronicle: UC Davis Will Pay Coach $725,000 to Settle Title IX Discrimination Case
The University of California has agreed to pay $725,000 to settle an unfair-dismissal lawsuit brought by a former wrestling coach at the university’s Davis campus.
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San Jose Mercury News: Student shocked by stun gun in campus library sues UCLA
A UCLA student who was shocked with a Taser by campus police after refusing to show his identification card sued the university Wednesday, claiming his civil rights were violated.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, alleges University of California, Los Angeles campus police officers used excessive force by repeatedly shocking him with the stun gun Nov. 14, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court.
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A state court rejected last week a complaint filed by the faculty union of California State University over the appointment of Barry Munitz, a former system chancellor who was rehired as a professor last April.
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Reform of Taylor Law to heat up Albany
Background
Key issues in Taylor Law debate include whether to:
Not long after Richard Ianuzzi became president of the New York State United Teachers’ union in the summer of 2005, he was invited to have lunch with the board of directors of an organization the union often crosses swords with: the state School Boards Association.
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The Chronicle: Employee at a New York Community College Is Charged in Pay-for-Grades Scheme
State prosecutors have accused a computer-laboratory technician at LaGuardia Community College, in Long Island City, N.Y., of taking alcohol and cash — including at least one $2,500 payment — from students in exchange for altering their grades.
In a 137-count indictment, the technician, Elvin Escano, has been charged with, among other things, grand larceny, falsifying business records, computer tampering, and forgery, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by Richard A. Brown, district attorney for Queens County. Mr. Escano has also been charged with tampering with a witness who was called to testify before a grand jury investigating the case.
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Courier-Journal: Judge sides with Fletcher on Murray regents
A Franklin Circuit judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s appointment to the Murray State University board of regents.
Judge Tom Wingate agreed with Fletcher that he has the right to reject nominees submitted to him by the Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee.
Earlier this year Fletcher rejected two lists of nominees to the Murray board, but eventually appointed appeals court judge Jeff Taylor from a third list. The lawsuit was brought by the three nominees originally submitted by the nominating committee.
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The Chronicle: U. of Phoenix Loses Bid for Review of Decision That Reinstated High-Stakes Lawsuit
The University of Phoenix has lost another legal round in its attempt to derail a whistle-blower lawsuit that seeks billions of dollars in damages from the for-profit institution and its parent company, the Apollo Group Inc.
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Times-Dispatch: Students file suit against R-MWC
Nine students at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College filed suit against the school yesterday, asking that men not be admitted until 2010. The suit requests an injunction forbidding the college to go coed or change the focus of its curriculum for the next three years.
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Times Colonist: Teachers’ union sued
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in Victoria seeking damages from the B.C. teachers’ union for their illegal strike last year.
The suit names seven individuals as representatives of the class of people who are claimed to have lost money when teachers walked off the job last fall. It names the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation as defendant.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: UW, faith group go to court
Can religious student organizations in the University of Wisconsin System limit their leadership to students of a particular faith? Can a Christian organization prohibit homosexuals from serving among its leaders?
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