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 fraternity chapter at the University of Nevada, Reno where an 18-year-old pledge died in October is appealing its a 15-year suspension.
Nevada elementary schools with kindergarten or pre-kindergarten programs can have their water tested for lead thanks to a grant from the federal government.
Nilan Nasri was just 18 months old when his pediatrician noticed something special. Inspired, his parents later founded the Nasri Academy for Gifted Children in Henderson, a school that Nasri touts as the first independent, gifted elementary school in Nevada.
A Clark County School District investigation of Trustee Kevin Child said he created a hostile and intimidating work environment, held impromptu “suicide counseling sessions” with young children when he visited schools, and caused anxiety among female employees, according to a memo obtained Friday by the Review-Journal.
Bob and Sandy Ellis have been giving toys to underprivileged children throughout the state for 12 years.
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.
On most class projects, students are concerned with their grade. At the Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition, engineering students at UNLV also are concerned with winning cash and maybe even getting their project on the market.
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.
The central offices of the Clark County School District are being shuffled and moved into new categories in an effort to provide better services to schools under the state-mandated reorganization, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky announced Friday.
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