About 300,000 students return to classes Monday in the Clark County School District. Here are seven things to know about the new school year in the nation’s fifth-largest district.
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A group of Las Vegas teachers organized the protest Wednesday after warning Clark County school administrators for months of rising violence.
The district has seen over 1,000 logged citations and arrests since January and over 3,000 assaults, battery cases and fights since the start of the school year, CCSD Police Chief Henry Blackeye said.
The Clark County School District has been “in critical need of drivers” this school year with 250 driver and transportation vacancies.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara delivered his yearly “State of the Schools” address Friday, with the theme “Emerging Stronger Together.”
The Clark County School District’s updated COVID-19 mitigation guidance no longer requires students to stay with a designated peer group during recess and other outdoor activities.
The Clark County School District is making a handful of changes beginning Wednesday, including no mask requirement on school buses and eliminating mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing.
Both employee and student absences were higher than normal as the district resumed in-person teaching in the midst of a rapid surge of coronavirus around the Las Vegas Valley.