Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
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When the Civil War breaks out, 17-year-old Roy Fox is asked to use his knowledge of the area’s terrain to carry messages to Confederate leaders. His elusiveness in evading Union capture earns him the title The Gray Fox.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky began his state of the district address on Monday by praising specialty magnet programs, but warned that enrollment is rapidly growing in the crowded school system.
Touro University Nevada announced it has hired former UNLV administrator Raymond W. Alden, III to be provost of its Henderson campus.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
The Clark County School District’s graduation rates for the second year continue to hover around 71 percent, with 16,604 students receiving diplomas in 2014. However, the 70.9 percent graduation rate was lower than the 2013 high of 71.5 percent, when 16,194 students graduated.
Clark County School District officials continue to flesh out the details of their evolving transportation plans for students attending next year’s expanded magnet programs.
Clark County School District board members learned the results of a sex education survey conducted over the past few months at a Thursday meeting.
Faith Lutheran High School’s Conservatory of the Fine Arts plans to open its previously senior-only classes to all Las Vegas Valley high school students beginning next school year.
Otis Harris, who said he can still remember walking to the Westside Grammar School with mud up to his knees whenever it rained, joined several hundred people at a groundbreaking ceremony for the historic Las Vegas school’s renovation Saturday.
The Clark County School District released the first reports from an initiative announced last year to bring business leaders in to analyze the district’s budget.
Dozens of people gathered at UNLV Monday afternoon for a candlelight memorial for the victims of the terror attacks in Paris.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee’s chief of staff recently said a big victory for the mayor would be announced soon: Attaching his city’s name to one of the College of Southern Nevada campuses. But the people who are in charge of that decision say there isn’t a plan to change the college’s name.