The university unveiled plans to develop 32 acres and add a medical school program.
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The Clark County School District’s five-day pause, which includes two canceled school days, began Friday due to “extreme staffing shortages” spurred by a surge of COVID-19 cases.
The site at 851 E. Tropicana Ave., just east of Paradise Road, across from UNLV’s Thomas Mack Center, will be closed from Sunday through Christmas.
An allegation of Medicaid fraud last year against Northwest Academy led state officials to temporarily suspend payments to the boarding school.
College of Southern Nevada Counseling and Psychology Services launched a training program in March at its campuses for staffers to pick up on early warning signs of mental health problems in their classrooms and organizations.
School officials ultimately interviewed 293 students, and continued their strategy of both considering and selecting students who are from Nevada, or those with ties to the state.
The first class of 60 students at the UNLV School of Medicine embark on a long road Monday that state officials hope will eventually alleviate Southern Nevada’s physician shortage and boost the local economy.
A budding Southern Nevada medical school was dealt a blow Thursday as it learned a committee declined to grant the school’s request for preliminary accreditation, likely delaying the college’s opening.
Nevada kindergartners have a weighty problem, according to a statewide survey released Thursday of more than 8,000 families with children starting school.