The Clark County School District won’t pay for a number of programs, including Care Solace, next school year after federal COVID-19 relief money dries up.
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Rancho High School history teacher and State Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, D-Las Vegas, said fights happen frequently in the area surrounding the school.
The school district’s trustees are set to consider hiring a former gubernatorial candidate’s law firm as its legal counsel.
The Assembly Committee on Education held a hearing Thursday on a bill that would lift a 2019 mandate to provide a plan before removing a student from a classroom or school.
The School Board outlined its 2023 legislative priorities, saying it would support letting parents opt their children out of sex education.
The Andre Agassi Foundation for Education and the Engelstad Foundation will give winners of a three-phased contest up to $500,000 to solve one question: “Who has an idea for improving Nevada’s educational landscape?”
The State Board of Health will hold an emergency meeting at 9 a.m. Friday and members of the public can tune in via phone or Zoom video conferencing.
UNLV is part of an 11-university consortium that will receive a $25 million federal grant to support research and development in nuclear science, engineering and security.
While pledging no new taxes in his state of the state address Wednesday night, the Democrat is proposing retention of two taxes that were scheduled to be reduced or phased out. Keeping them will bring about $138 million.
The six candidates vying for three seats on the Clark County School Board agree on many topics in public education, from retail marijuana tax revenue to improving employee morale.
U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen on Monday introduced a bill that would expand the existing Work Opportunity Tax Credit to ensure that all student veterans using their GI Bill benefits can take advantage of paid internships or part-time work while in school.
A $1.2 million allocation from the attorney general’s office to the University of Nevada, Reno Medical School should soon begin producing more baby doctors for the state.
A scaled-back, less-expensive plan to provide more money to certain Nevada students was unveiled Wednesday.
A new administrative assistant in the Nevada Department of Education would help springboard the paper-based teacher licensure office into the 21st century.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, in his Tuesday night State of the State address, referred to the $115 million in new investment for the Nevada System of Higher Education as “strategic.
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