Education

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.

March 14, 2024 A class action alleges that the operator of ThemisBar.com illegally tracks user information—including which video lectures they watch on the site—and secretly shares it with Facebook.

February 29, 2024 A class action alleges the University of the Potomac’s Chicago campus illegally misrepresented to students that it was a degree-granting institution.

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.

December 11, 2023 National Student Clearinghouse faces a class action over its alleged failure to secure consumers’ private information during a data breach targeting MOVEit.

October 25, 2023 Two UW faculty members claim in a class action that the state’s ethics board has infringed on their right to academic freedom by rummaging through their faculty email accounts.

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).

September 1, 2023 A proposed class action alleges Vassar College deliberately underpays, underpromotes and unfairly evaluates female professors.

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 28, 2023 A class action alleges eight Ivy League universities have illegally agreed to not provide Division I athletes with scholarships or other compensation or reimbursement for their athletic services.

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.

July 1, 2022 A proposed class action claims that Northeastern University has failed to prudently manage its employee retirement plan since 2016.

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.

May 13, 2022 A class action claims Aspen University misled prospective students regarding the benefits of the school’s pre-licensure bachelor of science in nursing program.

April 18, 2022 A lawsuit alleges Prehired misled consumers as to the cost and benefits of its programs before locking the individuals into unlawful income-sharing agreements.

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.

April 1, 2022 A lawsuit claims the Delaware Department of Education has unlawfully failed to provide students with a free appropriate public education up until the age of 22.

February 28, 2022 A class action claims Nelnet has placed unlawful debt collection robocalls to consumers’ cell phones without securing prior express consent to do so.

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 18, 2022 A class action challenges the Cumberland Valley School District’s January 2022 decision that made wearing masks optional for students districtwide.

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

February 15, 2022 A class action claims South Carolina’s Beaufort County School District has failed to pay teachers at the promised rate for providing “dual modality” instruction.

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.