Nevada System of Higher Education regents held a special meeting Thursday night to consider a few options: keeping the requirement, eliminating it or pushing back the termination date.
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Following a Legislative Commission decision Tuesday not to approve a permanent COVID-19 vaccination mandate, schools began removing holds on student registrations.
The Clark County School District currently has about 850 licensed employee vacancies — more than at the start of the school year — and hundreds more support staff openings.
Nonprofit Green Our Planet offers hands-on lessons through outdoor gardens and indoor hydroponics programs.
The site at 851 E. Tropicana Ave., just east of Paradise Road, across from UNLV’s Thomas Mack Center, will be closed from Sunday through Christmas.
Lisa Cano Burkhead’s appointment by Gov. Steve Sisolak will become official Thursday with events in Las Vegas and Carson City.
The federal lawsuit filed this week argues that both the vaccination mandate and a requirement that unvaccinated workers be tested for COVID-19 are unconstitutional.
Susan Goldman, who died last year from COVID-19, launched a gift drive decades ago to benefit homeless and refugee students. Daughter Mollie Fulwider has now taken the reins.
The Clark County School Board voted 6-1 on Thursday to approve four recommendations for the “transfer of responsibilities,” an item related to the state’s 2017 reorganization law.
Officers of the Clark County School Board approved new “assurances” to be added to his employment agreement and mediation of his workplace harassment claims.
Arbitrators or hearing officers confirmed allegations against many of the nearly 50 Nevada state and local employees for misdeeds since 2015.
The report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and U.S. Chamber of Commerce looked at pre-COVID-19 pandemic standardized test scores and high school graduation rates.
Expelled from hundreds of miles beneath the Earth’s surface by a volcanic blast, a diamond contained small specks of a previously unknown natural mineral now named “davemaoite.”
The bill allows Nevada students to take up to three mental health days a year and adds mental health resources to the back of all student ID cards statewide.
A recording of a 911 call offers a snapshot into the frantic moments after UNLV student Nathan Valencia collapsed following a bout in a fraternity-sponsored charity boxing event on Nov. 19.