A middle school teacher who was fired after students learned she had appeared in pornography has lost her appeal to return to the classroom, her lawyer said Tuesday.
An attorney for a county teacher of the year says she will plead not guilty to charges she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old honors student.
Chicago Teachers Union members will walk off the job Sept. 10 unless a new contract is reached with the school district because teachers are "tired of being bullied, belittled and betrayed," the union's president said late Thursday.
A teacher who was suspended from her job last year for a blog in which she called students "disengaged, lazy whiners" has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the suburban Philadelphia school district.
A southern New Jersey school district has suspended a 40-year-old accused of telling a 7-year-old she was "too sexy" for gym class from its list of substitute teachers.