Sarina Ali, a seventh grader at the private Omar Haikal Islamic Academy, misspelled “toluene” during round four of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday.
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Of the 176 licensed employees listed as leaving the district in the May report, more than 60 are special education teachers.
Darryl Lancaster, 57, has been charged with multiple counts of lewdness with a child under 14.
Sarina Ali, sponsored by the Public Education Foundation, participated in the preliminaries Tuesday in National Harbor, Maryland.
Schools. A’s. Mining companies. Formula 1. Those are some of the entities Gov. Joe Lombardo met with during his first few months in office according his calendar, obtained by the Review-Journal.
The Memorial Day ceremony honored two fallen service members, as well as an employee from the college’s Military and Veteran Services Center.
A Nye County resident said he felt the school district had recovered from the pandemic slower than the rest of the state under the superintendent’s leadership.
Gov. Joe Lombardo held a signing ceremony for Assembly Bill 73. The changes go into effect immediately amid high school graduation season.
Shanea Anna Chee, a student at Brown Junior High School in Henderson, was selected as a finalist for her doodle highlighting her Diné heritage.
Danielle Ford, who was elected to the Clark County School Board in 2018 and lost the general election in November, hopes to launch a podcast by the beginning of June.
The Clark County School District filed a complaint May 17 against the Clark County Education Association.
Nevada and federal officials have teamed up on a program to provide food to students 18 and younger now through August.
Amid a teacher shortage, the nation’s fifth-largest district relies on educators from the Philippines to help cover hard-to-fill positions in elementary school, special education, and math and science.
The Nevada Senate passed Assembly Bill 282, which would require school districts to provide long-term substitute teachers with a subsidy to buy health insurance.
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted against the K-12 education budget, saying more money should have been spent on literacy programs and teacher training.