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.

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 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 ...

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 ...