CARSON CITY – A panel of lawmakers and educators on Monday recommended that Nevada’s public education funding formula include more money for students in poverty or with limited English proficiency.
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Latinos in Nevada often fare worse than Latinos in other Intermountain West Region states, according to a study being released Monday.
To some, Suzuki means a car; to others, it’s an electric keyboard. To Cynthia Man, a resident of northwest Las Vegas, it means hearing music played by young musicians. Man is the artistic director of the Desert Suzuki Institute, which instructs young students in violin, piano and flute.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, student leaders on Friday sent a letter to Hillary Clinton’s family foundation asking that she “do what is right” and donate all or part of her $225,000 speaking fee for addressing the UNLV Foundation back to the university for student benefit.
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The University of Nevada School of Medicine cut the ribbon Tuesday on a new care center in Henderson designed to serve wide-ranging primary care needs by providing several specialties in one clinic.
In the small rural town of Austin in central Nevada, valedictorian Kendra Willis might be the loneliest high school graduate on the loneliest road in America.
With plans underway for Nevada public schools to receive more state dollars for students in poverty or who are English language learners, it should come as little surprise that the CCSD put its support in writing for the new funding formula.
A panel of lawmakers on Thursday agreed to delay for one year a new statewide performance evaluation system for public school teachers and administrators. The new evaluation system was proposed to begin in the 2014-15 school year, but the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee was told it is not ready to be implemented.
A panel of lawmakers opted Tuesday to support recommendations to strengthen Nevada’s community colleges within the existing governing structure rather than embrace more dramatic changes sought by some advocates.
Despite an economy that is starting to turn around, the number of children living in poverty in Nevada is slightly above the national average, according to an annual analysis of children’s well-being released Wednesday.
Clark County School District officials on a quest for one health plan to serve all 30,000 employees on Monday received a consultant’s $158,350 analysis on how to leverage its status as the state’s largest employer. But a lawsuit filed May 29 in District Court may throw a wrench into the works.
A former Clark County teacher’s aide accused of aggressively handling two special needs students in the classroom is expected to plead guilty to child neglect charges, a prosecutor said. Lachelle James, who was arrested in March 2012 on five counts of child abuse and one count of battery, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Monday, according to court records.
The U.S. demographic of children who are born in other countries or who are being raised by an immigrant parent is growing. In 2012, there were 57,000 such children living in the city of Las Vegas, according to the latest numbers available from the Kids Count data center, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation based in Baltimore. That represented 40 percent of the 142,000 Las Vegas children under the age of 18.
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