Some private schools are allowing deferred payments or offering more financial assistance, but they aren’t refunding tuition for the time when kids were home with parents.
Education
Jack Rico earned his degrees from Fullerton College, a community college in Southern California, becoming the youngest graduate in the school’s history.
UNLV will notify students by early July via the MyUNLV online portal which classes will be offered in-person or remotely, the university said Thursday.
The school district is building new schools on existing campuses at Harris, Ferron and Harmon elementary schools in east Las Vegas. Construction will begin in June.
School nurses assisted at places this spring such as testing sites, Las Vegas’ ISO-Q (Isolation and Quarantine) Complex for the homeless, Clark County Fire Department and nonprofits.
The students are Dakyung Lee from Coronado High School in Henderson, Clarence Ndubisi from The Meadows School in Las Vegas and Emhyr Subramanian from Davidson Academy of Nevada in Reno.
In court minutes Thursday, Judge Timothy Williams wrote: “For this Court to decide this issue, it is best to have a full and fair evidentiary hearing.”
During the Friday night ceremony, graduating seniors received their diplomas in their cars, then took an approximately 1-mile “victory lap” around the speedway.
The Education Support Employees Association says the district’s nine- and 10-month-a-year workers often rely on summer jobs to get by, but opportunities are limited this year.
Wednesday was the last day of school, and now it’s summer break until Aug. 10 for about 325,000 students.
The school district’s $17 million Human Capital Management System was rolled out in early January. Issues with the software affected thousands of teachers, who didn’t receive their full pay.
Former Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian and former Regent Bret Whipple are running in the June 9 primary election for the higher education system’s board of regents, which will be conducted by mail-in ballot only.
Byron Brooks, Lachelle Fisher, Swadeep Nigam and Stephen Silberkraus are facing off during the June 9 primary election for the NSHE Board of Regents District 3
Three candidates — Patrick Boylan, Kevin Child and Nick “Doc” Spirtos — are running in District 5 during the June 9 primary election to replace the late Regent Sam Lieberman, whose name will still appear on the ballot.
Despite the difficulties of the switch to online learning, Nevada colleges realize they cannot return to the pre-pandemic status quo when in-person teaching returns.