The school district and fellow trustees face an odd dilemma in addressing behavioral issues with Trustee Kevin Child, one of the district’s top seven bosses.
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A group of conservative students against the idea of UNLV being declared a sanctuary campus came away satisfied from a Thursday meeting with UNLV President Len Jessup. “We have heard what we wanted to hear from Jessup — that the campus is going to follow federal law,” a group co-founder said.
The Clark County School Board’s lawsuit over a mandated reorganization adds a “layer of instability and uncertainty” to its implementation, the state’s top education official said Thursday.
UNLV President Len Jessup will meet on Thursday with leaders of newly formed UNLV Campus Conservatives group that opposes making the university into a sanctuary campus, the group’s co-founder said.
The Clark County School District is seeking a permanent injunction against key provisions of the district’s mandated reorganization after repeated concerns from school board trustees had been largely ignored.
An arbitrator has ruled Bishop Gorman Development Corporation must pay $28.7 million to a Las Vegas construction company for work done building the high school more than six years ago.
Nearly 2,000 UNLV graduates received diplomas during Saturday’s ceremony at the Thomas & Mack Center, which represents an increase of about 12 percent from the 1,766 degrees awarded last December.
Watching Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky confront the school board last week was like tuning into a soap opera.
College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College will join 49 other schools across the country in a new student loan counseling experiment.
Ryan Crosby’s story and another involving a class from Canyon Springs High School are extraordinary testimonials about a program that receives little publicity yet changes lives. We the People is a nationwide competition started in 1987 by the Center for Civic Education.
Six months before he was elected to the Clark County School Board in 2014, District D Trustee Kevin Child’s issues with the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors culminated in a temporary protection order.
In essence, the reorganization of the Clark County School District is a breakdown of an over-sized kingdom into smaller nation-states.
Tensions between the Clark County School Board and Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky escalated into several heated exchanges Wednesday as Skorkowsky confronted trustees about political maneuvering to diminish his role in the district’s reorganization.
Javier Aget-Torres, who is of Cuban descent, said part-time math instructor George Buch should not be fired for making remarks about immigrants to him on Facebook. The comments led to a firestorm of controversy.
Charter schools aren’t eligible for the Nevada’s achievement district, which has irked opponents of the initiative.
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Vegas Stronger CEO Dave Marlon said the most effective members of the organization’s street team have personal experience with homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness.
The Las Vegas airport reached the forecast high of 108 on Wednesday, a degree short of the record for June 5, set in 2016.
The discovery was made about 9:40 p.m. in a neighborhood near Wetlands Park, police said.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s November recruit class graduated from the police academy with the support of a large crowd including family members.
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