Bluffton High School teacher Margaret DiPietro talks with students Ivy Schleicher, left, Carly Thomas, center, and Meg Tilton, right, Thursday morning during a class assignment dissecting a sparrow.

NEWPORT BEACH – A series of crude photos and comments posted on Facebook that depict Newport Harbor High School students posing with cat carcasses during a science dissection lab remained online ...

But she conquers her fear. She dissects a cat for a human anatomy class with 15 of her West High School peers. The dissection project is the reason many students sign up for the elective class, and ...

NEWPORT BEACH – A national physicians group that opposes animal dissections in schools is calling on Newport Harbor High School to stop dissecting cats in science classes in the wake of a series of ...

BEAUFORT, S.C., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A donation to a South Carolina high school to buy cadaver cats has sparked controversy over animal dissection in schools. Battery Creek High School anatomy and ...

A group of students at MAST in Homestead, a public school devoted to medical sciences, dissect a cat carcass during a 2011 class. Miami-Dade schools are now banning the use of felines for dissection.

Sixteen-year-old high school junior Brynnan Grimes was appalled when she learned last August that she’d have to skin and dissect a cat during her anatomy class at Culpeper County High School. “I never ...

Here’s a timeline of what’s lead to this possible decision SAN ANTONIO – The North East Independent School District will no longer dissect cats in its biology and anatomy and physiology classes, the ...