Connecticut to press No Child Left Behind challenge despite Michigan dismissal
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has promised to continue a state challenge to funding under the federal No Child Left Behind Act despite the dismissal of separate...
Documents released Monday by the US Justice Department show that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was actively involved in efforts to expand law enforcement powers while employed as a deputy assistant...
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Will v. Hallock where it will decide whether a plaintiff who sued the federal government for an alleged...
The US Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a federal appeals court decision that erased the conviction and death sentence of a dual US and British citizen for setting a fire in Ohio that killed a toddler...
The National Education Association (NEA) has promised to appeal a Wednesday ruling by a federal judge in Michigan dismissing its lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) [PDF text; executive summary; US Dept....
The US Education Department on Tuesday planned to send to states initiatives easing some requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) , which educators have...
Japan panel backs change to succession law to allow female monarchs
A government panel agreed Monday that Japan's succession law should be changed to allow the first-born child, irrespective of gender, the right to ascend to the throne, which would for the first time allow female members of the royal...
JURIST Guest Columnist David DeWolf says that the Kitzmiller intelligent design case may settle whether the Pennsylvania school district that put "intelligent design" into its curriculum was acting under impermissible religious animus, but it may not settle whether teaching the...
A Missouri circuit court judge ruled Thursday that the state's child abuse registry is unconstitutional because it does not allow alleged abusers a due-process hearing before being placed on the list. The registry is not available to the general...
14-year-old boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia despite international treaty
After what Human Rights Watch has called a flawed trial , a 14-year-old boy is facing execution in Saudi Arabia after his conviction for the murder of a young child. The three-year-old victim was found dead...
