Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
Education
The Clark County School District’s budget contains $3.5 billion in operating revenues for the 2024-2025 school year.
The Nevada Supreme Court rejected a teachers union effort to put public funding for the Oakland Athletics’ planned Las Vegas ballpark on November’s ballot.
The program permits students who did not meet the requirements to graduate in four years to have an additional year to get their degree, district officials said.
The movie studio would be built at the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park in southwest Las Vegas, but that depends on a bill clearing the Nevada Legislature.
The Clark County School Board approved a tentative $3.4 billion budget for the 2024-25 school year. The tentative budget now will be filed with the State of Nevada for review.
More than a third of Clark County School District students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, according to state officials.
Students at nearly a dozen Clark County School District campuses — primarily, in North Las Vegas and Henderson — will see changes to attendance boundaries next school year.
A Review-Journal investigation into crashes involving students played a part in Clark County’s decision to entertain adding guards at crosswalks near middle schools.
A second education group is challenging a Nevada Legislature bill that provides public funding to help build an Athletics ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip.
Education officials are probing the use of federal pandemic relief dollars to send staffers to beach destinations after a Review-Journal investigation.
The Clark County School District has agreed to turn over public records related to Superintendent Jesus Jara’s social media accounts by Feb. 5 in response to a lawsuit by the teachers union.
The Clark County Education Association said it’s beginning an effort to gather 102,362 signatures in order to put the proposal on the ballot for a 2026 election.
District Court Judge Richard Boulware administered the oath of office Tuesday at the Las Vegas City Council Chambers to Dane Watson, Lisa Satory, Adam Johnson and Ramona Esparza-Stoffregan.
The negotiated agreement, approved by an arbitrator, came after a long period of negotiations and disputes between the teachers union and the school district.