A little more than six months after Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a dizzying list of education reforms into law, policymakers and education leaders will meet Monday to consider what’s next for the Silver State.
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After months of uncomfortable silence, Mallory Levins finally mustered the courage to speak up: Her colleague at the Nevada System of Higher Education, she told her bosses, had made a habit of masturbating at work while she was forced to listen.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has asked a Carson City judge to dismiss a second lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new education savings accounts, widely considered to be the most aggressive school-choice program in the country.
Three Nevada colleges will receive a combined $336,000 to develop workforce training programs focused on the needs of high-tech industries.
Nevada has reached a $1.3 million settlement with a New Hampshire company over a botched student testing program, the attorney general’s office announced Monday.
Las Vegas resident Dulce Inzunza has always dreamed of sending her daughter to private school.
The chairman of the Board of Regents is seeking an outside expert to investigate whether Chancellor Dan Klaich killed research critical of his administration.
Many elected state higher education leaders say they want more information about Chancellor Dan Klaich’s efforts to quash a report critical of his agency, and some question his leadership.
Challenged to improve quality at state-run community colleges, officials of the Nevada System of Higher Education hired a consultant to recommend changes — then killed a report saying their system is a problem.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a proclamation Tuesday endorsing Western Governors University Nevada, a nonprofit online institution that offers undergraduate and advance college degrees in business, teaching, information technology and health professions.
Victor Wakefield, executive director of Teach for America in Las Vegas, was appointed Friday to the State Board of Education by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s many-pronged education spending and reform package approved by the just-concluded 2015 Legislature represents the most significant change to the public school system in 60 years.
Nevada schools on Monday resumed statewide testing of students in grades three to eight following computer server crashes that interrupted the process last week. About 27,000 students started testing without interruption on Monday morning, according to the Nevada Department of Education, though the system later generated error messages at some schools across the state.
The executive director for the organization that represents the state’s two largest education unions has been replaced. It was not immediately clear if Gary Peck was fired or resigned from the leadership post at the Nevada State Education Association. According to the NSEA web site, Peck has been replaced by interim executive director Richard “Dick” Terry.
The founder of a Reno school aimed at educating the most gifted middle- and high school students was appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents Tuesday.
