Richard Moore’s zeal for helping people went far beyond his career as a teacher and college president. It even spread to the checkout line at the grocery store.
Education
The Clark County School District, with the support of its teachers union, soon may overhaul its salary schedule to recruit new educators to Las Vegas while encouraging more teachers to work in at-risk schools.
Clark County School District officials said Thursday morning that it was one of many around the country to receive email threats.
Based on how the late Marjorie Barrick’s wishes to keep the Barrick Lecture Series going strong after her death and how the lectures have been allowed to languish, I’m not sure I’d give the UNLV Foundation millions. Presuming I had millions.
When Kiran Mathew received her UNLV diploma Tuesday, the newly minted college graduate already had a resume stuffed with professional achievements.
A lavish new wedding exhibit greets guests at The International School of Hospitality in southeast Las Vegas, where crystals, roses and silk linens adorn a set of party-ready tables just past the main lobby.
A Las Vegas judge may rule soon on the constitutionality of the state’s new education savings accounts, widely considered to be the most aggressive school choice program in the country.
Former elementary school teacher Jeremiah Mazo prayed one final time with his wife and daughter inside a courtroom Wednesday before a bailiff handcuffed him and led him away to begin serving up to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing three students.
A Clark County School District high school teacher faces charges of committing a sex act with a student, according to Metro booking logs.
Facing a slashed budget and the need to trim spending by $1.8 million this academic year, the College of Southern Nevada has introduced sweeping cost-cutting measures as school leaders prepare to ask for more money from the state next month.
A decade-long fight to unseat the labor union that represents more than 11,000 bus drivers, custodians and support staff who work for the Clark County School District culminated Saturday in a landslide vote for Teamsters Local 14.
UNLV administrators on Friday stalled a proposal to hand the school’s radio station to Nevada Public Radio after more than a dozen students, volunteers and listeners decried the deal before a panel of state education officials.
State officials on Friday delayed a pair of votes affecting the way employees at Nevada’s seven higher education institutions are fired and transferred between schools.
Without leaving their desks, about 1,500 students at Leavitt Middle School this week swam with fish on the Great Barrier Reef, preyed upon a praying mantis in the Galapagos Islands and climbed the peaks of Machu Picchu.
Las Vegas doesn’t have a direct role in education funding or governance, but it could soon have a whole department dedicated to influencing those who do run local schools.