Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara began his annual State of the Schools speech on Friday by focusing on the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures have had on the mental health of students and staff.
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The Clark County School District will begin bringing its youngest students back into classrooms March 1, the district said in a memo to employees sent Wednesday.
While some Clark County educators received their first doses of the vaccine last week, many others met with disappointment during a confusing rollout.
In a memo to employees Tuesday, the Clark County School District said employees who sign up earlier could be turned away or rescheduled at vaccination sites.
Faith Lutheran, a private school in Las Vegas, welcomed most of its students back to campus full time last week.
The Clark County School Board took two steps toward reopening school buildings, giving principals the ability to bring small groups of students back to campuses on a voluntary basis as well as approving an agreement with its teachers union aimed at a broader future reopening.
About 200 UNLV students are part of the contact tracing team, which assists the Southern Nevada Health District.
The board is expected to decide Thursday whether to allow small groups of students to return to the classroom after 10 months of distance learning.
Clark County School District students received more failing grades during the fall semester of distance learning than in previous school years, according to district data.
Two UNLV engineering students won the university’s senior design competition last month with a timely project — a microwave for COVID-19 disinfection.
Inoculations of front-line health care workers at the region’s universities and colleges would begin a week after schools in some areas began giving shots to similar workers.
The organizers of an initiative to improve Nevada students’ access to distance learning said Tuesday that all state students now have access to a computer and internet at home.
The Clark County School District has used fully distance education since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are other large school districts doing?