An internal audit of the state’s public and charter schools made several recommendations, including unifying school accountability measures.
Education
Assembly Bill 118 reduces the board overseeing the Nevada System of Higher Education from 13 members to nine, in addition to establishing four-year terms.
Gov. Joe Lombardo signed two bills related to funding for K-12 education and authorizing spending by state agencies.
Pablo Macias Lopez, a senior at Legacy High School in North Las Vegas, said he’ll be studying asteroid shapes and how they move and spin in space.
Doral Academy was closed on Friday following reports that students were sick with a stomach bug.
The move is aimed at reducing disparities in the award-winning schools among racial subgroups to more closely mirror the makeup of the district’s student population as a whole.
March for Our Lives and the Giffords organization will confront the top Democratic presidential candidates at a 2020 Gun Safety Forum on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
The state’s two largest school district announced a security breach this week that affected more than 600,000 students currently or previously enrolled in the school systems.
The lease agreement for the academic year will provide 1,300 beds to UNR students after the July 5 explosion in a boiler rendered two residence halls uninhabitable.
UNLV Provost Diane Chase will leave her position for a new role at Claremont Graduate University in California on Sept. 1.
The Washoe County School District’s trustees voted 6-1 to fire Superintendent Traci Davis on Monday, after allegations that confidential information was leaked to a former employee who is suing the district.
The decision may determine if a monthslong effort by teachers to purchase and run the Henderson school after its parent company entered receivership will succeeed.
