Six students shared how they had been affected by COVID-19 and resulting school closures with the former second lady.
Education
Eight candidates are seeking to replace the term-limited Trustee Chris Garvey in the District B seat, which covers the north and northeastern part of the Las Vegas Valley.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
The Clark County School District and the State Public Charter School Authority declined to say if the patient’s child attends a district school.
The university will instead house students in two private apartment communities as work continues to repair two campus buildings damaged in a July 2019 boiler explosion.
Nevada’s two public universities have both been recognized with the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement for the first time.
The education funding debate is not unique to the Silver State; nearby states have an array of approaches, with no one having found the right balance.
The resolution sponsored by Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, appears unlikely to pass the Senate and faces a potential veto by President Donald Trump if it does.
High school graduation rates in Nevada and Clark County inched slightly higher in 2019, with both recording new highs, according to state data released Thursday.
Previously known as Pack Advantage, the Nevada Guarantee covers tuition, fees and books, as well as academic support to help students graduate in four years.
Nevada’s two public universities experienced spikes in reports of sexual, domestic and dating violence incidents from 2017 to 2018, according to a report to be presented this week to the Board of Regents.
The program is expected to address a shortage in Southern Nevada of speech pathologists, who work with patients who have disorders related to speech, language or swallowing.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., a 2020 candidate for president, has signed a petition to UNR administration calling for the school to take action against instances of white supremacy on campus.
The career college may lose its license to operate in Nevada after a report to the Commission on Postsecondary Education recommended denying its renewal request.
The flyers were attributed to the American Identity Movement, classified as a white supremacist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.