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Israeli competition challenges safe-cracking skills of 4 Clark County school teams

Call them either Bycraft’s Five or a reincarnation of the Hole in the Wall gang, but a team of four juniors and one senior from Green Valley High School are ready to crack some safes. Science teacher Mike Bycraft and members of the Henderson school’s engineering club are headed to Israel in March to compete in an international safe-cracking competition. Three other Clark County schools are also participating.

Will your child be affected by CCSD zoning changes?

Clark County School Board members voted on Thursday to make minor zoning changes that will affect several schools throughout the valley next year.

New program tracks early spike in pollen counts

Southern Nevadans now have a way to monitor pollen counts thanks to a revived joint program involving the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Clark County Department of Air Quality and the Clark County School District.

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New Henderson charter school runs into neighborhood opposition

Officials at Coral Academy of Science, a charter school with three campuses, want to open its fourth in a long-vacant Henderson shopping center, but more than 600 residents of Sun City MacDonald Ranch have signed a petition to oppose it.

UNLV provost to resign, return to teach at Boyd Law School

John White, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ executive vice president and provost, will step down from his position at the end of the academic year, the university announced Tuesday.

CCSD honored for improving advanced placement focus

The Clark County School District was honored nationally as a College Board Advanced Placement District of the Year for leading large district schools in increasing the number of students taking advanced classes and improving successful scores on AP exams.

CCSD board approves attendance policy affecting driver’s licenses

The Clark County School Board on Thursday approved a new attendance policy that requires students under 18 years old to submit a certificate of attendance to the Department of Motor Vehicles or face having a license suspended or denied to them.

Nevada board gives up supermajority rule for switching unions

A state board overseeing worker elections of unions said it will change its 13-year-old policy that a supermajority is needed for one union to oust another, noting that it was “a failed experiment.”

Lawyers argue whether CCSD teacher emails are public or private

A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices seemed perplexed on Wednesday as they listened to a Clark County School District lawyer argue that work email addresses for its 17,000 teachers are not public record.

Literary Las Vegas: Heidi Loeb Hegerich

Like her “Love Target” protagonist, Nevada author Heidi Loeb Hegerich was an underage Las Vegas showgirl in the ’50s and swinging ’60s.

Outcome of Teamsters’ bid to represent CCSD workers pending

On Thursday morning the Nevada Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board will rule on the validity of Teamsters Local 14’s bid to take over as the Clark County School District’s support staff union, a role now filled by the Education Support Employees Association.