College and university faculty members across the state called for emergency campus security upgrades in response to the fatal UNLV shooting.
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A gunman killed three people and seriously injured a fourth at UNLV’s campus. The shooting began inside Beam Hall, which houses the Lee Business School.
In a Friday news release, the Uvalde Foundation For Kids said it plans to deploy patrol teams to areas around Rancho High School and other Clark County School District campuses.
The Clark County School District filed a motion to dismiss in a teachers union lawsuit that aims to overturn a ban on public employee strikes.
Two teachers, each facing misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace, appeared before judges and had their trial dates set.
Rancho High School history teacher and State Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, D-Las Vegas, said fights happen frequently in the area surrounding the school.
Joshua and Britten Wahrer filed a lawsuit in 2019 against the Clark County School District and their son’s former teacher.
The Nevada Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling in favor of a former student who sued the Clark County School District over a high school yearbook photo.
In a message to parents, the school’s principal said police “were made aware of the possibility that a student was in possession of a weapon and located a firearm.”
The ACLU of Nevada is seeking an order to require the school district to release records related to a police altercation near Durango High.
School Board President Evelyn Garcia Morales said the community cannot accept violence any longer.
The Lawfare Project said in a news release that the teen — who is Jewish — was wearing a yarmulke at the time of the alleged attack at Clark High School.
An autistic Jewish Clark High School student came home from school in mid-March with what appeared to be a swastika scratched into his back, according to the Israeli-American Council.
Bullying and fight accounts on platforms such as Instagram exist at campuses throughout the Clark County School District. Many posts are disturbing.
The Clark County School Board will consider authorizing a second $9 million settlement agreement in a case related to a former school bus driver who is serving prison time for sexually assaulting preschoolers.