Cash payments. Drinks and airfare. Government contracts. All ingredients of a good scandal. But in the case of Nevada’s State Public Charter School Authority, there’s more behind allegations of misconduct than meets the eye.
Education
When Steve Buuck stepped into the auditorium of over 200 students at Faith Lutheran Middle and High School in November to pitch a new after-school offering, he had 90 seconds to win them over.
UNLV will offera new unmanned aerial systems certification program in the upcoming spring semester, broadening the local workforce’s skillset as the demand for drone pilots increases across industries.
Bob and Sandy Ellis added Matt Kelly Elementary School in Las Vegas to the growing list of schools that they support with cash donations to principals and Christmas gifts to students.
The University of Nevada, Reno, has earned the designation as a top research institution along with UNLV, but was inexplicably left off the list published this week, officials said Friday.
The designation will enable UNLV to develop new research projects and help solve some of the city and region’s most pressing problems, as well as help attract top-tier faculty and students, acting President Marta Meana said.
UNLV’s 55th winter commencement ceremony on Tuesday included approximately 2,146 undergraduate and graduate students who recently completed their studies.
A Henderson high school was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after receiving a phone threat, school police said.
As the last three beams of a new student union at College of Southern Nevada’s North Las Vegas campus were hoisted into place Tuesday, a chant of “raise the beam” broke out.
A UNLV health sciences library has moved to the back burner as officials double-down on fundraising efforts to get an education building for the medical school off the ground.
Incoming Nevada State College students can earn up to $2,000 off their tuition and fees based on their previous grade-point averages.
The College of Southern Nevada is searching for more than 800 people to who are willing to mentor students as part of the state’s Promise Scholarship program.
Many Clark County teachers question the fairness of the professional growth system, a way to earn raises that the district and teachers’ union rolled out in 2016, saying it unfairly penalizes some educators while rewarding others.
A record 83 percent of high school seniors in Nevada graduated in 2018, according to state data released on Friday.
The middle schools were selected Thursday by the State Board of Education to participate in the Achievement School District initiative, which aims to improve academic performance through competition
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