By her own admission, Marilyn Kirkpatrick isn’t an expert on stadiums. The Nevada Assembly speaker’s day job is food sales, not sports venues.
Education
It’s time for some tire-kicking, and that means you’ll need to look out for lemons.
Ashley Seda was only 10 years old when her parents started paying her college tuition.
Teacher union officials are now agreeing to dissolve the Teachers Health Trust and let teachers join a proposed district-wide health plan covering all 36,000 workers, according to the 2013-14 teacher contract approved by the Clark County School Board on Thursday.
Two teachers last at Lied Middle School have been arrested on sex-related charges against minors since the start of the 2013-14 school year. “It makes me want to take my kids out of the school,” parent Vanessa Orozco said.
It took just a week for nearly 300 students who got iPads from their Los Angeles high school to figure out how to alter the security settings so they could surf the Web and access social media sites.
In this school year’s official head count, which took place Friday, Hispanic students outnumbered any two other ethnicities combined in the Clark County School District. Their numbers are rising at twice the rate that the Caucasian student population is declining.
Students will now be allowed to enter the tailgate area with their student IDs. The fee for students to enter the area was dropped to $10 per vehicle, but non-students will still have to pay $20 per vehicle. Last year, the fee was $40 per car.
Brad Honious, associate vice president for financial aid, told the Review-Journal in an email that his resignation was effective Wednesday.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics unanimously denied Clark County School Board President Carolyn Edwards’ request Wednesday to throw out its investigation of her actions during last year’s general election – and will instead dig deeper into whether she violated state law that prohibits spending public dollars to lobby for a measure to increase property taxes.
UNLV officials who want students to attend football games are considering easing up on student tailgating policies. Members of UNLV’s student government say current tailgating policies discourage student attendance at games.
The University of Nevada, Reno has announced plans to build a new four-story, 100,000-square foot recreation and fitness center with an $8 million contribution from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation. It will open in 2016.
Millions of dollars funneled to support English language learners, the state’s new Common Core standards and a new mandatory teacher evaluation system were what experts debated Monday during a community conversation about education.
A quarter of Nevada’s 604 public schools were downgraded by the Nevada Department of Education on Monday for students’ performances in the 2012-13 school year, but State Superintendent Dale Erquiaga asserted that it’s not because students are falling further behind.
Policy changes were implemented this fall to prevent UNLV students from putting off remedial courses until late in their college career.
