The Clark County School Board on Thursday unanimously gave the initial green light for administrators to start the paperwork on issuing $500 million in new debt to pay for the construction of new schools and the repair or replacement of aging infrastructure.
Education
By NEAL MORTON / RJ
An “honesty gap” study released Thursday by the nonprofit education reform group Achieve shows a 42-point discrepancy between the Nevada-reported proficiency scores in fourth-grade reading compared to the National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP.
By CHRIS KUDIALIS / RJ
Joshua Wolf Shenk, 44, will succeed current director Carol Harter as the head of the literary writing graduate center, department spokesman Joseph Langdon said in a news release.
By TYLER STAHLE DESERET NEWS
The average American child gets his or her first cellphone at the age of 6, and it only goes up from there. A survey reported on by Education Week found that 51 percent of all high school students carry a smartphone with them to class everyday.
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