Clashes between Republican lawmakers and Clark County School District officials have started to overshadow a study to carve up the nation’s fifth-largest school system despite hopes that politics wouldn’t interfere with that process.
Education
When the staff at Variety School met Brian Reyes three months ago, his new teachers had to clean blood from his hands and face.
The state’s higher education board on Friday pushed a series of proposals to merge services at Nevada’s colleges and universities, putting the agency at odds with lawmakers who want to split the system instead.
More than 1,400 student entrepreneurs set out to develop ideas that would have a global impact in a summer program held last year.
As state lawmakers consider dismantling the Nevada System of Higher Education, the agency’s Board of Regents will gather Friday in what some political insiders criticized as a bureaucratic stunt aimed at thwarting reform efforts.
This month is a crucial time for families with children who want to attend a Clark County magnet school, as the deadline to apply is fast approaching on Feb. 2.
The Clark County School District plans to overhaul the way it trains each of its 18,000 teachers and require them to change how they lead classrooms in an effort to help students who lack proficiency in the English language.
On May 7, hundreds of Clark County residents are set to come together at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts for an inaugural awards event, much like the Oscars or the Emmys, with live entertainment, striking award statues, and gift bags for all of the attendees.
A question is asked before a heated debate begins. It’s not a presidential candidates debate. It’s students in a classroom.
On Friday, 20,000 glow sticks were strung together and laid out on the playground during a world-record attempt at Brookman Elementary School in Las Vegas.
Marriott International’s J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has pledged to give UNLV’s hotel college $2.5 million to help build a new on-campus home.
Construction begins this week for a seven-story garage near UNLV that will contain about 630 additional parking spaces for the school, boosting its capacity to house vehicles by 5 percent.
It only took six months, dozens of teacher rallies and quiet intervention from Gov. Brian Sandoval before the Clark County School District and its teachers union struck a deal on a new contract that will cost taxpayers $135.5 million.
The outcome of a Nevada murder case may depend on whether a key piece of evidence is admitted at the defendants’ upcoming trial, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.
A man who ran from police prompted two Clark County School District schools to be placed on lockdown Monday afternoon near Tropical Parkway and Commerce Street, North Las Vegas police said.
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