Education

April 18, 2024 A class action accuses R3 Education of failing to protect consumers’ data during a “massive and preventable” cyberattack discovered in November 2023.

March 27, 2024 Greensboro College faces a class action that claims deficient cybersecurity on the part of the private college resulted in an August 2023 data breach.

March 22, 2024 EdisonLearning faces a class action over a March 2023 cyberattack that compromised the personal data of approximately 23,000 employees.

February 16, 2024 A Title IX class action accuses the Mt. Diablo Unified School District of illegally failing to provide female College Park High School athletes with equal access to and experience with sports opportunities.

February 15, 2024 Emmanuel College faces a class action lawsuit after an April 2023 cyberattack compromised the personal data of approximately 89,000 people.

February 9, 2024 MOHELA faces a lawsuit over its alleged failure to process and decide on applications for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program in a timely manner.

January 23, 2024 A class action claims ARCC failed to protect the private data of more than 65,000 individuals during a cyberattack detected in February 2023.

January 10, 2024 A class action alleges Equifax negligently and recklessly reported false and damaging information about a consumer’s federally forgiven student loans.

December 13, 2023 A school district in Alaska and three school staff members face a class action lawsuit over the allegedly disproportionate use of “excessive and unjustified” restraint and seclusion methods on students with disabilities.

October 13, 2023 A class action claims the University of Minnesota failed to protect the private information of more than seven million people during a cyberattack reportedly discovered in July 2023.

September 15, 2023 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Monsanto Company knowingly contaminated Vermont public schools with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

August 24, 2023 A class action alleges PowerSchool and several others have caused millions of students to hand over their data without their knowledge or consent through the Naviance platform.

August 7, 2023 A class action lawsuit alleges that The Children’s Place has knowingly concealed from consumers that its school uniforms contain harmful polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as “forever chemicals.”

August 2, 2023 A class action claims Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. failed to protect the private data of around 11,980 individuals from a February 2023 cyberattack.

June 27, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Whitworth University of failing to protect current and former students’ personal data from a cyberattack in July 2022.

May 11, 2023 The University of Southern California (USC) faces a class action that claims the school has falsely marketed its online Master of Social Work (MSW) program as “exactly the same” as its in-person counterpart.

March 20, 2023 A class action alleges Bloom Institute of Technology lied about job placement rates and ensnared students into giving investors a cut of their future earnings.

March 20, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims VocoVision deprives its Washington-based independent contractors of higher pay and employment opportunities by including unlawful noncompetition covenants in its contracts.

February 3, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Coursera, Inc. of unlawfully subscribing consumers to recurring paid programs and later charging them without authorization when the subscription renews automatically.

January 27, 2023 The University of Southern California faces a class action after its decision to pull its Rossier School of Education from the annual U.S. News & World Report grad school rankings.

January 13, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Chegg, Inc. of unlawfully subscribing consumers to paid programs and later charging them without authorization when the subscription auto-renews.

December 2, 2022 A class action alleges the NCAA and its member schools have unlawfully conspired to fix the wages of certain college baseball coaches at zero, suppressing labor competition.

December 1, 2022 The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and its police dept. face a class action over the “conduct and omissions” of the city and law enforcement during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022.

November 29, 2022 Chegg faces a class action roughly a month after the FTC accused the company of “numerous cybersecurity lapses” that allegedly caused four data breaches between 2017 and 2020.

November 10, 2022 A class action alleges the U.S. Dept. of Education has enabled fraudsters to steal hundreds of millions of dollars and saddle innocent consumers with fraudulent student loan debt.

November 1, 2022 The Savannah College of Art and Design faces a proposed class action in the wake of a “widespread” 2022 data breach.

September 27, 2022 Florida A&M students allege the board of governors for Florida's public university system and the state have discriminated against historically Black colleges and universities.

September 21, 2022 The University of Central Oklahoma faces a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged Title IX violations.

September 7, 2022 A proposed class action contends that the preponderance of “challenges” on TikTok has caused a wave of destruction, theft and violence in school districts across numerous states.

August 30, 2022 Nelnet Servicing faces a class action over a 2022 data breach affecting more than 2.5 million people who’ve taken out student loans with OSLA or EdFinancial.

July 13, 2022 A class action alleges Columbia University has falsely reported certain data to U.S. News and World Report in order to artificially boost its ranking among universities nationwide.

June 29, 2022 Mississippi Delta Community College faces a class action over its alleged practice of automatically expelling nursing students for testing positive on a hair follicle drug test.

May 31, 2022 Illuminate Education, Inc. faces a class action after its PupilPath platform was hit by a data breach in early 2022 that reportedly impacted nearly two million students across five states.

April 14, 2022 National Math and Science Initiative has been hit with a class action in the wake of a data breach last year that reportedly exposed the sensitive information of nearly 200,000 individuals.

April 14, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Rutgers Business School has perpetrated a “massive fraud” upon MBA students by submitting false and misleading employability statistics.

February 23, 2022 A class action asks the court for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction blocking the school from disclosing the identities of members of its Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

February 16, 2022 A Missouri school district faces a class action after removing from circulation in school libraries eight critically acclaimed books.

February 8, 2022 A class action alleges San Diego State University has discriminated against female student-athletes by failing to pay equal athletic financial aid for more than a decade.

December 1, 2021 A lawsuit claims students at The Utah System of Higher Education’s eight public universities are owed refunds for certain costs paid during the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 15, 2021 A class action alleges Tennessee’s ban on mask mandates has harmed students at a severe risk of illness due to COVID-19 and its variants as a result of their disabilities.

November 5, 2021 The School Board of Volusia County, Florida faces claims that it discriminated against students with disabilities by denying them equal access to programs and services.

September 22, 2021 Student Loan Financial Assistance has preyed on student loan borrowers by misrepresenting the cost and features of federal loan repayment programs, a class action alleges.

August 26, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Udemy falsely advertised “original” reference prices that misled customers into believing the company’s instructional videos were sold at a discount.

August 26, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Alum Financial misrepresented its role in helping student loan borrowers obtain relief through federal loan forgiveness and consolidation programs.

June 8, 2021 New York University faces a lawsuit over its alleged failure to issue refunds for the semester transitioned online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 20, 2021 A class action alleges the University of Mississippi has engaged in deplorable, “largely off the record” age, gender and racial discrimination.

May 10, 2021 A class action aims to represent more than 1,400 University of Tampa employees alleged to have paid over the past six years an estimated $3 million in retirement plan administrative fees.

May 4, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Louisiana State University has systemically failed to address known issues in its response to reports of sexual misconduct.

April 30, 2021 A class action looks to represent certain Illinois law and med school students and state bar exam-takers who’ve used ExamSoft Worldwide’s online proctoring software.

April 14, 2021 A class action alleges the District of Columbia has failed to provide special education to students with disabilities who have been incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.