Some public charter schools in the Las Vegas Valley are using additional state money to increase pay for their employees by as much as 20 percent.
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The Legislative Commission on Tuesday approved a regulation with specific steps to be taken if the Clark County School District doesn’t follow a 2017 measure that gives individual schools more control.
The business organization called Tuesday for the Board of Regents chair and vice chair to step aside while an independent investigation is being conducted.
James Dean Leavitt, who served on NSHE’s Board of Regents for 12 years, applied over the summer for the board’s chief of staff and special counsel position.
Lang was executive director of both The Lincy Institute, a public policy think tank, and Brookings Mountain West. He was also a public policy professor at the university.
The Class of 2021 has an important story to tell. The Review-Journal is giving some of this year’s finest graduates a place to tell it.
The university made the announcement Thursday, citing new guidance from the Nevada System of Higher Education. But the higher education system hasn’t yet announced any change.
Fifty students from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV celebrated their graduation Friday at the university’s Thomas & Mack Center.
The issue arose during the period of time that the board met virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic and took comments by email only.
Students used scientific research to discover how someone with PTSD would respond to different elements inside “Mojave Bloom,” a 628-square-foot home powered by the sun.
Forty-six percent of respondents to The Nevada Poll, a phone and online survey, said they disapproved of actions taken by both the trustees and the superintendent.
The school, which will graduate its first class of students in May, announced Friday that it has been fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
UNLV is part of an 11-university consortium that will receive a $25 million federal grant to support research and development in nuclear science, engineering and security.
Efforts by Democratic groups to get UNLV to revoke authorization for a campus chapter of the national conservative student organization Turning Point USA have come up empty.
Despite rising COVID-19 case rates, the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority will continue allowing some in-person classes in counties with elevated virus transmission.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. In the city, you get The Strip (along with the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
The study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that Nevada ranks low in a number of child well-being indicators.
Former President Donald Trump discussed campaign strategies and policies for potential second terms in an exclusive interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The fire that started at 12:30 a.m. Sunday damaged or destroyed approximately 15 boats and caused minor injuries at the harbor, according to the National Park Service.
Progress continues on the Oakland Athletics’ plan to build a $1.5 billion ballpark in Las Vegas. Senate Bill 1 became law a year ago, but steps remain before shovels hit the ground on the Strip.