A retired teacher in his 70s receives a suspended jail sentence for the sexual assault of a boy during a week-long school excursion almost 40 years ago.

A computer chip containing the science experiments of a group of Australian school students is hurtling through space this morning, bound for the International Space Station. Students from seven New South Wales schools have been working on ways to make space travel easier. Overnight, their ideas - contained on chip called Raspberry Pie - were fired into space on-board a rocket launched in Florida.

The decades-old voices of people teaching and learning the Miriwoong language are preserved in a unique collection of magnetic strip cards.

There are fewer than 1,000 black-throated finches in the wild, but one north Queensland primary school has bred 120 as part of a science class.

A female teacher is in hospital with a shoulder injury after being stabbed at a Townsville primary school by an 11-year-old female student, Queensland police say. The student was tasered by police and detained.

The father of an 11-year-old Townsville girl, who was tasered by police, after allegedly stabbing a teacher, apologises saying he has "no idea" what was going through his daughter's mind.

A school in the heart of the desert has been covered with thousands of icicles, as the mercury plummets to new lows across the the NT

The records of children and teachers have been left vulnerable to cyber security attacks due to an oversight from the Northern Territory Government, a report from the auditor general's Office has revealed.

A former primary school teacher who abused 38 of his students at several country Victorian schools is sentenced to 12 years in jail, but some of his victims say the sentence should be longer.

Daisy the school dog is the latest staff member at Melrose Primary School, helping students with her calming influence and improving attendance rates.

Ahead of a fierce fire season, a cadet program for volunteer firefighting prompts school students to join their local Rural Fire Service brigade.

School students are learning meditation and reporting their emotions with apps in a bid to prevent disruptive behaviour in the classroom.

A Canberra man who sexually assaulted his former partner before creating nude posters of the woman and threatening to distribute them is jailed for at least 18 months.

Garry Marsh, 73, pleads guilty to indecently assaulting a student while he coached him in rugby union at Canberra's St Edmund's College in 1979, and will spend two years behind bars.

Siobhan Sutton is an academically talented student but is proudly choosing to fail a test today, and she is not alone as thousands of students across the country take part in the the global School Strike for Climate.

A parliamentary inquiry into how Canberra schools handle bullying complaints reveals tragic stories of desperate parents and students, prompting a raft of recommendations.

A week ahead of the first hearings of the Disability Royal Commission in Townsville, a new survey of families of children with disability finds nearly no progress has been made on improving access to inclusive education.

MP Warren Entsch says the Queensland Government failed to honour a deal to help fund a Cairns Indigenous boarding facility for girls following the state election.

Concerns are raised in the Queensland Parliament over the time it took a Gold Coast state school to suspend an eight-year-old boy accused of sexually assaulting his classmate.

A Gold Coast principal is asked to make pig snorting noises amid a defamation case in which she is suing five families over comments made about her on social media.

A Brisbane mother calls on the Queensland Government and Schoolies stakeholders to stop dating website Tinder from partnering with booking website Schoolies.com.

Queensland's central schoolies booking agency ditches its brief dalliance with the dating app Tinder after it sparked outrage from parents and the State Tourism Minister.

The rate of deliberately lit fires escalates rapidly during the school holiday period, according to an expert in arson investigations, as Queensland authorities reveal action has been taken against 21 juveniles and nine adults in recent weeks.

Teachers from Brisbane's Murri School say the annual educational bush camp provides social and emotional benefits for city students.

Police launch an investigation after a 12-year-old girl said she was tied up and sexually assaulted in bushland on the NSW Central Coast by a man with a knife while on her walk to school.

A team of homeschooled students will this week travel overseas, most of them for the first time, to compete in an international Lego robotics competition in Denmark.

NSW Police charge a man who allegedly wore a camouflage suit as he abducted and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl while she was walking to school on the Central Coast three months ago.

The principal of three alternative schools in New South Wales says she will run them illegally if she is forced to close following a scathing report into their compliance.

Almost two years after the death of a five-year-old schoolgirl, who was hit and killed by a passing truck on the NSW Central Coast, an investigator fights to make sure it never happens again.

Parents of children attending regional and rural schools are calling for a commonsense approach in the wake of the NSW Government's crackdown on school enrolment caps and out-of-area enrolments.

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(Court of Appeals of New York) - In a tax-exempt charitable organization's action against a school district seeking to recoup erroneously paid taxes, summary judgment in favor of the school district is affirmed, where: 1) the school district was entitled to rely on the one-year statute of limitations in Education Law section 3813(2-b) rather than the general six-year period for contract actions; and 2) the taxpayer's cause of action for money had and received accrued when it paid the taxes, which was more than one year before it filed suit.

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reinstated a Catholic elementary school teacher's claim that her employment was terminated based on her disability, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Held that she did not qualify as a minister for purposes of the First Amendment's ministerial exception to generally applicable employment laws. Reversed a summary judgment ruling and remanded.

(United States Seventh Circuit) - Revived a parochial school's claim that its students were being denied state‐funded bus transportation equivalent to public-school students, contrary to Wisconsin law and the Equal Protection Clause. Reversed summary judgment in relevant part and remanded.

(United States Fifth Circuit) - Held that an education services company could not proceed with its Lanham Act lawsuit against a school district for using its marks in the course of operating a summer reading program. Affirmed summary judgment for the school district, finding that the allegedly infringing marks created no likelihood of confusion as a matter of law.