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Ruling means 4 more days at school for Clark County teachers

Professional development for teachers in the Clark County School District will again be daylong affairs next year after the state Department of Education ruled that the program’s current incremental structure violates Nevada law.

Racially charged situations topic at Black History Month event

“We’re talking about, how do you navigate stress in face-to-face encounters that relate to race? People get nervous when racial conversations come up,” Stevenson said. “They don’t know what to do. They get tongue-tied and end up making bad decisions in general because of it.”

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Clark County schools need to revise teacher reassignment process

Opinion from Nevada attorney general’s office says that provisions of the district’s collective bargaining agreement conflict with the process by which teachers are “surplussed” twice a year to match resources with student population.

Debate team pair brings UNLV national recognition

Football, basketball and other sports teams often look beyond state borders to recruit talented athletes. But another competitive organization on UNLV’s campus didn’t have to travel far to find one of its top performers.

Squires Elementary archers take tournament

The North Las Vegas team’s top 18 students will compete next in the western nationals tournament of the National Archery in Schools Program in Utah in April.

Atkinson back to driving UNLV’s med school since health scare

A major health scare forced Barbara Atkinson away from her duties for about four months last year, leaving a medical school three weeks shy of its opening date hanging in the balance.

Parental pushback delays new CCSD transgender policy

Government bodies have violated Nevada’s open meeting law in numerous ways over the years. The offenses usually aren’t as blatant as the infringement committed Thursday by the Clark County School Board.

Misconduct training videos for Clark County schools criticized

Clark County schools had a chance to lead the nation in training employees on appropriate relationships with students but instead issued flawed videos that fail to address a number of concerns, according to experts who reviewed the new recordings at the request of the Review-Journal.

Nevada university sees student success in online schooling

It might not have the bricks and mortar of an esteemed university building, but Western Governors University has a talking owl as its mascot, and it’s turning heads in the direction of online schooling.

Clark County students boost national call for safer schools

Rallies are planned at six Las Vegas Valley schools for March 14 to demand change to prevent school shootings. But like adults, the students have different ideas on how that could be accomplished.

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