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By Miriam Barish | June 12, 2017
Student hazing and bullying have become endemic and intractable problems with often tragic outcomes. Headlines of abuse are becoming common with details of students inflicting egregious physical and emotional harm on other students. Hazing can include brutal physical acts, sexual assaults, mandatory binge drinking, forced calisthenics and other harmful conduct. Bullying, on the other hand, is any unwanted physical, verbal or other aggressive behavior by one student directed at another. While hazing is typically used to gain membership in a group, bullying uses tactics to exclude the victim.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 9, 2017
Retirement benefits properly suspended where there was no break in service because employee was immediately hired back as an independent contractor to perform many of the same duties as her old position. Order of the Public School Employees' Retirement Board affirmed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 9, 2017
CAB erred in denying petitioner's application to establish a charter school because there was no evidence that petitioner lacked independence from the service provider that would provide curriculum, educational materials and educational management ser-vices. Reversed.
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By Jim Saunders | June 8, 2017
A federal judge has sided with the Florida High School Athletic Association in a dispute about whether a Christian school should have been allowed to offer a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before a football championship game.
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By Lloyd Dunkelberger | June 8, 2017
In a rebuke to Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Senate voted to override vetoes of some $75 million in higher-education projects, although House leaders appear reluctant to back the move.
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By DEBORAH G. STEVENSON | June 8, 2017
It is unfortunate that before the Connecticut Law Tribune's editorial board published the article "It's Time To Regulate Home Schooling" the board did not reach out to those who know the most and have the facts about home schooling. Had the board done so, it certainly would have been more informed, and the article published would have reflected more accurately existing history, law and custom.
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | June 2, 2017
Home schooling can be successful and healthy, work well for many families and should be an educational option available to parents. There are, however, instances of abusive or neglectful parents who are able to hide their mistreatment of their children because they home-school.
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By Kristen Rasmussen | May 31, 2017
Suspended UF vice president and general counsel Jamie Keith resigns months into an internal investigation.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | May 17, 2017
Incoming Houston Bar Association president Alistair Dawson plans to launch an initiative to help special needs students get pro bono assistance for getting accommodations at school.
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By Charles Toutant | May 8, 2017
The Appellate Division has upheld a jury's no-cause verdict clearing a school district in a suit by a former student who claimed he was sexually abused by his teacher from 1982 to 1986.
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