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Andrew Magness, who has taught at Valley High School for eight years, recently was named Clark County’s Educator of the Month for February.
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that alleged a girl was harassed at Wynn Elementary School because she was black.
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Take a sip for scholarship at UNLVino, Las Vegas’ wine weekend, slated for April 16-18. The event, set to feature celebrity chefs, entertainers, wines, spirits, craft beers and cuisine over three nights, raises funds for UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration.
The executive director for the organization that represents the state’s two largest education unions has been replaced. It was not immediately clear if Gary Peck was fired or resigned from the leadership post at the Nevada State Education Association. According to the NSEA web site, Peck has been replaced by interim executive director Richard “Dick” Terry.
The magic words at Mac King’s Magical Literacy Tour aren’t “abracadabra” but rather, “read more books.” In March, King, a Summerlin resident, visited four elementary schools — Hollingworth, Bunker, Thomas and Thorpe — for Nevada Reading Week. This is the fifth year in a row that King has presented the Magical Literacy Tour.
After 10 years of pleas and false hope that the Clark County School District would replace the aging Heard Elementary School with a new school in a quieter part of Nellis Air Force Base, base officials want to sever ties with the school district and have a new charter school built, joining eight other Air Force bases around the country that have charter schools.
“Newsies” cast members Chaz Wolcott and Jordan Samuels have some moves. That’s news to no one.
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Students at The Meadows School are learning to manage their money firsthand through The Meadows School MicroBank, one of the first such high school entities in the U.S. Its intent is to help entrepreneurs in developing countries get ahead by providing small loans through the nonprofit crowdfunding site kiva.org.
Clark County charter schools, where enrollment is 66 percent white, are on the path to resegregation, public school superintendent Pat Skorkowsky told business leaders Tuesday.
The founder of a Reno school aimed at educating the most gifted middle- and high school students was appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents Tuesday.
Jack Lund Schofield, a former Nevada legislator and member of the state Board of Regents, died Friday, according to local officials.
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The man pointing a rifle at officers in a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex, police said.
This was the Henderson Police Department’s second officer-involved shooting in 2024, officers said at a media briefing Thursday afternoon.
Ventriloquist Terry Fator has loaded his show at The Strat with new acts and material.
A federal website that tracks missing people has posted photos of the clothing worn by a man whose remains were found in a barrel at Lake Mead two years ago.