About 300,000 students return to classes Monday in the Clark County School District. Here are seven things to know about the new school year in the nation’s fifth-largest district.
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Both employee and student absences were higher than normal as the district resumed in-person teaching in the midst of a rapid surge of coronavirus around the Las Vegas Valley.
As students prepare to head to back to school next week, officials held a press conference on Thursday to discuss school safety.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority has received 44 letters of intent this year from proposed schools. That’s up from 27 in 2020.
Anticipating increasing demand for in-person instruction, Clark County schools will use priority lists to determine which students can return to campuses, officials said Friday.
UNLV knocked $50 off a facilities fee to compensate for limited access to some services because of COVID-19, but some students say the discount isn’t enough.
Clark County is offering 13 facilities across the Las Vegas Valley where young children will have access to distance learning.
The Clark County School District and the State Public Charter School Authority declined to say if the patient’s child attends a district school.
David McKinnis, who joined the district in April 2019, announced Monday that he is leaving the district effective Friday due to personal family reasons.
School leaders acknowledged the need for improvement and spelled out the efforts to address their problem areas to authority members.
The Clark County School Board will vote Thursday on a $100,000 settlement with the mother of Dalvin Brown, who was shot and killed at Canyon Springs High School last year.
It’s been nine weeks since the start of the 2019 legislative session and we’ve heard many bright ideas for improving public education. But we haven’t addressed the elephant in the room — money.
Though his tempestuous time on the School Board ends Monday, Kevin Child will continue to do battle with the Clark County School District through his ongoing lawsuit.
The Cristo Rey St. Viator school, scheduled to open in September 2019, is looking for 125 low-income students to fill its first class. Students will work at least one day a week at local businesses under the school’s unique business model.
The 15-year-old was taken into custody after school Wednesday when he was found to have a .40-caliber handgun in his possession. It was the fourth firearms incident this school year at Clark County schools.
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