The rankings, which were expected in mid-September, will be delayed until December, state superintendent of instruction says.
Education
The Clark County School District may be violating the law that forced its reorganization by not adequately funding rural schools, officials say.
Carrying a price tag of nearly $1 million, a high-speed, laser-scanning microscope — the first of its kind in the state — will be coming to UNLV next spring.
The final action on Nevada’s controversial private school choice program came Thursday when the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee approved $105,000 to pay off the remaining costs incurred by a vendor who was working on the development of software to implement the program.
The decision means the long process to decide the online school’s fate because of its 37 percent graduation rate will continue in late October.
State Public Charter School Authority appears to be nearing decision on whether to accept Nevada Connections Academy’s plan to improve its 37 percent high school graduation rate.
Clark County schools are individually deciding where to use their share of new state spending targeting students learning English who also live in poverty.
The reorganized school district, fifth-largest in the nation, has six new campuses to help ease overcrowding.
Nevada is among four states to get U.S. Education Department approval of its plan as required under a new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA.
Greta Peay’s appointment as the district’s first chief instructional services officer was announced Wednesday.
The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee will consider the request for the money from its contingency account at its meeting Aug. 24. The money is needed to pay for work on the the program through June 30.
School officials and parents say a new law intended to keep children safe from sexual predators in schools could lead to a substantial drop-off in volunteers, who are being asked to pony up for the privilege of helping out.
A $1.7 million contract to ensure Nevada public school students master reading by the third grade was approved Tuesday by a state board.
A state board on Tuesday approved moving forward with issuing of $32.2 million in revenue bonds to assist in financing the acquisition of charter school facilities operated by the Doral Academy of Nevada in Las Vegas.
As school organizational teams face funding roadblocks or issues with principals or officials during the Clark County School District’s state-mandated reorganization, they’re struggling to find where to lodge concerns.
