Horse Powered Reading was created in 2012 with the aim of helping children who are struggling with reading. The Las Vegas Valley has a handful of trained facilitators.
Education
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.
Amplus Academy, a public charter school in southwest Las Vegas, offers an emergency medical technician class through a partnership with a paramedic institute.
Some Las Vegas Valley schools are using free programs through Let Grow, a national nonprofit organization that works to promote childhood independence and free play.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal filed a public records request July 31 seeking classroom teacher vacancy numbers by campus. The district released the information in November.
Rancho High School history teacher and State Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, D-Las Vegas, said fights happen frequently in the area surrounding the school.
Justin Smith, the student in the yearbook photo, in April 2019 filed a complaint in Clark County District Court alleging negligence by the Clark County School District, which has appealed the case.
Jasmin Valdivieso Sanches, 22, is among 100 recipients of the Voyager Scholarship for college students who aspire to go into public service.
CCSD and Nevada State University are creating a new internship program that will place “teacher residents” at high-needs valley elementary schools.
Some public charter schools in the Las Vegas Valley are using additional state money to increase pay for their employees by as much as 20 percent.
A Nature article says Ashkan Salamat and his research team will soon see a 2021 paper published by Physical Letters Review retracted due to alleged data fabrication.
Projects are planned over the next decade and are part of the Clark County School District’s 2015 Capital Improvement Program.
Children must now be 5 years old by Aug. 1 to attend kindergarten in Nevada’s public schools.
The Clark County School Board voted unanimously to pay law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP up to $595 per hour to assist during employee contract negotiations.
The Clark County School District, the fifth-largest in the nation, has about 300,000 students and more than 360 campuses.