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Transgender bathroom ruling not affecting Clark County School District for now

The Clark County School District has no formal policy on how to accommodate transgender students, so Monday’s ruling by a federal judge in Texas appears to have no immediate impact on the use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools here.

When parents miss red flags, burden falls on teachers, schools to catch mental health issues

When children struggle with mental health, it can be difficult to notice. Sometimes, it’s shrugged off as normal teenage angst or behavioral battles, but other times, the internal war becomes a violent and physical combat sending children to the hospital. If parents and caretakers don’t see warning signs or shrug them off, school officials could be a student’s only safeguard.

Nevada AG: Vendor in breach of contract for late school test scores

For the second time in as many years, the state has found a vendor in breach of its lucrative contract to manage and score the standardized tests that thousands of public school students take every spring in Nevada.

 
CCSD overhaul plan gets first of three critical votes

A controversial plan to overhaul the Clark County School District cleared one of three critical votes late Tuesday as a bipartisan group of state lawmakers granted their unanimous approval to a final set of regulations needed to set the plan in motion.

No Supreme Court decision yet on education savings account cases

The Nevada Supreme Court on Friday issued eight published opinions as Justice Nancy Saitta leaves the bench, but the highly anticipated rulings on two education savings account cases were not among them.