Justin Smith, the student in the yearbook photo, in April 2019 filed a complaint in Clark County District Court alleging negligence by the Clark County School District, which has appealed the case.
Education
Opportunity scholarships, alternative education and even education savings accounts may be on the table as the 2023 Legislature convenes.
The Legislative Commission on Tuesday approved a regulation with specific steps to be taken if the Clark County School District doesn’t follow a 2017 measure that gives individual schools more control.
An initiative that would have amended Nevada law to create education savings accounts overseen by the state treasurer was found unconstitutional.
The Clark County School Board voted 4-3 on Thursday night to appoint Lisa Guzman to the State Board of Education’s Assembly Bill 469 subcommittee.
The district sent emails and made robocalls to parents on Tuesday morning advising that all staff and students will be required to wear masks indoors and on district buses.
A plan for distance learning in the Clark County School District has been approved by Nevada’s state superintendent of public instruction.
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro visited Las Vegas on Tuesday, spending time with Clark County teachers and discussing education.
Several thousand teachers and supporters rallied in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday, calling for action from legislators and expressing frustration and anger at the state’s inability to properly fund education — or even talk about it.
The Clark County Education Association announced Monday that it is endorsing the Energy Choice Initiative. The executive board deliberated the issue at a number of meetings and reached a decision on Aug. 18, spokesman Keenan Korth said.
The Clark County School District may be violating the law that forced its reorganization by not adequately funding rural schools, officials say.
The months turned into weeks, and now its days for the Nevada Legislature to finish up by a mandated deadline of June 5.
The 107 school board trustees in Nevada will have to undergo six hours of training on education-related issues under a provision moved to the Senate floor Thursday.
Nevada fifth-graders would get a free pass to state parks, and the parks themselves would get more dollars for maintenance under two bills unanimously supported Thursday by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources.
School districts hoping to take advantage of the next round of state grants will have to focus proposals on three key areas — including more training for principals on the teacher evaluation system.
