Nevada education officials will hit pause on the state’s school accountability ratings following weeks of computer glitches that have marred an online student testing system. The State Board of Education on Thursday voted to carry over the one- to five-star ratings that individual campuses received in the 2013-14 school year to the 2014-15 school year.
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The father of a former Foothill High School student has filed a civil rights lawsuit that accuses the Clark County School District of acting with “deliberate indifference” toward the conduct of an English teacher who lured the teenager into an inappropriate relationship.
The North Las Vegas elementary school teacher arrested last week on multiple child molestation charges told police that “temptation” prompted him to inappropriately touch one of his students.
The Coral Academy of Science charter school has pushed back until 2016 its controversial plan to open a new Henderson campus.
A North Las Vegas elementary school teacher faces multiple charges of child molestation after police arrested him on Friday. Parent who have concerns about their child’s interactions with the teacher should contact North Las Vegas police.
Two Clark County School District buses crashed Friday afternoon in the northwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
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An 11-year-old Deskin Elementary School student was arrested after a .45-caliber gun fired in a classroom. Parents are trying to figure out what took school district so long to let them know.
Citing a continued failure of two state vendors to fix computer system glitches, the Clark County School District will indefinitely suspend online basic skills student testing. The district made the decision after students at eight campuses who previously couldn’t access the tests because of the glitches still encountered technical errors on Thursday.
The Nevada Department of Education may terminate its contracts with two vendors administering the state’s online student testing system if they fail to fix a series of computer glitches in the coming weeks.
The city of Las Vegas will use a nearly $100,000 grant to identify whether private sector interests could fund early childhood education and development programs for at-risk children.
Hundreds of science projects filled the Coral Academy of Science’s multipurpose room and courtyard Saturday for the second annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Expo in Henderson.
When learning gets messy, Steele Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Cheri Garner gets happy. Garner was named Clark County’s March Educator of the Month.
Common Core computerized testing is not functioning for the second day in three states across the nation, including Nevada, state education officials confirmed Wednesday.