Nevada System of Higher Education regents held a special meeting Thursday night to consider a few options: keeping the requirement, eliminating it or pushing back the termination date.
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“At least five” regents requested a special meeting Thursday to reconsider the requirement, but Gov. Steve Sisolak is encouraging the board to keep the mandate intact.
Urtubey, a Clark County School District special education teacher, has visited the White House, traveled the country and ended up on the cover of “People” magazine.
Following a Legislative Commission decision Tuesday not to approve a permanent COVID-19 vaccination mandate, schools began removing holds on student registrations.
Founding Executive Director Nancy Brune, who has led the research and policy center since 2013, will depart her post “for a new professional opportunity,” according to the University of Nevada, Reno.
The Clark County School District currently has about 850 licensed employee vacancies — more than at the start of the school year — and hundreds more support staff openings.
In a Thursday letter to parents, Principal Danielle McDowell said administrators at the public charter school’s Red Rock campus took “swift disciplinary action” against students involved.
The Nevada Attorney General’s Office has concluded that no violation occurred in the run-up to a School Board vote in May to extend Superintendent Jesus Jara’s contract.
The federal lawsuit filed this week argues that both the vaccination mandate and a requirement that unvaccinated workers be tested for COVID-19 are unconstitutional.
Two 13-year-old eighth-graders were arrested Monday after an unloaded pistol was found at school, Clark County School District Police Lt. Bryan Zink said.
Susan Goldman, who died last year from COVID-19, launched a gift drive decades ago to benefit homeless and refugee students. Daughter Mollie Fulwider has now taken the reins.
The group took first place at Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio, Texas, the Nevada System of Higher Education announced Monday. It has participated in the competition since 2019.
Jack Rico, who hails from Southern California, is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in history. He began taking classes at UNLV when he was just 13 years old.
The Clark County School Board voted 6-1 on Thursday to approve four recommendations for the “transfer of responsibilities,” an item related to the state’s 2017 reorganization law.
Officers of the Clark County School Board approved new “assurances” to be added to his employment agreement and mediation of his workplace harassment claims.
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.” […]
For those enjoying Juneteenth, the high should be close to seasonable near 101 with wind gusts to 21 mph.
A Henderson man accused of firing 112 bullets in his condo on Friday night told police he was protecting himself from robbers. Investigators found no such evidence.
Celine Dion told her documentary audience, “This is by far the biggest crowd I’ve had in years. I hope to see you all again very, very soon.”
NSHE acknowledged concerns from the Jewish community about comments made by a regent who serves as vice chair of the board’s diversity committee.