The lack of “teacher equity” in education systems across the country — including the Clark County School District — is by design. School districts and teacher unions have long embraced contracts and policies that ensure a steady flow of exceptional, experienced teachers to stable, higher-achieveing, higher-income, less-violent campuses where parents are more involved. Meanwhile, lower-achieving, lower-income, more-violent schools with higher minority enrollment and less parental involvement serve as training grounds for the newly hired — and the last stops for poor teachers who should be fired.
Josh Reichard came prepared. Not only did Reichard arrive Wednesday at the Rio Convention Center for Day 2C of the World Series of Poker Main Event wearing a Paul Pierce No. 34 Boston Celtics jersey, he had a Sharpie stashed in his pocket, too.
Now that the final match is set, that it has been decided Germany will play Argentina for the championship of the World Cup on Sunday, that Brazil as a host nation will mourn its national team’s disastrous semifinal loss for years to come, it’s important to separate fact from fiction with American soccer.
The Reno Aces had 18 hits in their 15-4 victory over Las Vegas. Reno took control with 11 runs in the second and third innings.
The attorney for a Las Vegas defense lawyer under investigation in connection with allegations of helping a client flee the country said Wednesday that police are on the wrong track.
The sweet sounds of quartets and choruses filled the MGM Grand Garden arena last week.
Are you lonesome tonight? If so, get your Elvis-lovin’ self over to Westgate Las Vegas, formerly the LVH, formerly the Las Vegas Hilton, formerly The International, where The King held court during the 1970s.
It’s a stifling 111 degrees outside on a Wednesday afternoon, but the children act like they aren’t bothered by it.
What a World Cup it has been: loads of excitement, loads of drama, loads of goals (thanks Germany, Brazil back line), loads of saves by Tim Howard and his big goalie gloves. The best news of all: Hollywood is planning to remake “(Escape to) Victory” the greatest movie ever made about soccer.
The league begins its 10th year operating at UNLV on Friday with 24 teams and interest at an all-time high.
You can’t always get what you want, as Mick Jagger is discovering after having been blamed by some Brazilians for that country’s epic meltdown Tuesday.
If big, bold experiments in Las Vegas entertainment were unraveling this week, smaller but still-encouraging ones continue.
Midway between Hoover Dam and the Hacienda Hotel, located at Boulder City’s east entrance, is an overlook that offers visitors an unrestricted view of Lake Mead’s Boulder Basin.
■ LAKE MEAD — The water level is holding at 1,082 feet, and the National Park Service is taking steps to ease boater difficulties at launch ramps. Boaters are encouraged to exercise caution as hazards can be exposed with lower water levels. Anglers hitting the water early are finding success. Many of those fishing through the Vegas Wash area are catching striped bass and finding plenty of shad for bait. Action has been good for largemouth and smallmouth bass, though smallies are outnumbering the largemouth bass. The fish are taking swim shad, spinner baits and worms fished on drop shot rigs.
“Pawnography” (10 p.m. Thursday, History) finds Rick Harrison, Corey Harrison and Austin “Chumlee” Russell of “Pawn Stars” fame competing against viewers in a three-round trivia competition.
It’s a statement that can forever damn a punk band, five little words with much larger implications. And Tom Carr has just uttered them. “My parents love that song.”
The British website Mail Online apologized Wednesday to George Clooney for alleging that his fiancee’s mother opposed their marriage on religious grounds — a story Clooney called both wrong and irresponsible.
Here are a few pop culture tidbits that just happened to catch our eye.
State gaming regulators tentatively approved a planned interactive gaming system that could house online poker websites for multiple casinos, potentially increasing the player pool in Nevada.
Macau is facing threats to its growth from China’s slowing economy and greater foreign competition, escalating the need for the world’s largest gambling hub to diversify from its casino gaming roots.
A decade after the simian flu wiped out most of humanity, the survivors are brought to the brink of war with the genetically evolved apes, led by Caesar (Serkis), in this sequel.
“You’re a bagman for movie stars. You’re also an extortionist and a wiretapper. Basically, you’re an all-around piece of (excrement).”
Raj Singh is taking advertising to new heights. The 19-year-old founder of DroneCast, a Philadelphia-based startup company, drew crowds on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday, flying an octocopter with a 3-by-12-foot banner promoting his company on the first day of a national media and promotional tour.
A man committed suicide at the Silverton casino Wednesday night, Las Vegas police say. Police got the call just before 7:30 p.m. and responded to the Silverton, where they found a 30-year-old man with a gunshot wound on the ground floor of the parking garage, Lt. Barb Schmidt said.
More than a thousand acres of Southern Nevada land scarred by mining waste was given a future when Congress completed work Wednesday allowing a major cleanup and redevelopment on a long disused site in Henderson.
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