Public clashes over extent of electronic communication between students, teachers during roundtable discussion Thursday night on the Clark County School District’s first-ever social media policy.
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Expert signed on to be guest speaker at school district roundtable on Thursday to publicly unveil draft policy on staff-student relationships and communication says “crisis” is also an “opportunity.”
The Clark County School District Police Department arrested a bus driver Tuesday on two counts of sexual misconduct, two counts of kidnapping and one count of use of a minor for child pornography.
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Four members of seven-member Clark County School Board indicate they would consider trying to renegotiate a clause in the union contract that allows teachers with a history of bad behavior to move from one school to another.
A bill aimed at strengthening background checks for Nevada school district employees sailed through the Senate education committee Tuesday.
The Review-Journal’s requests for comment on a series highlighting the district’s failures to manage inappropriate behavior between staff and students for years go mostly unanswered.
A measure requiring school districts to do more thorough background checks on applicants was approved Friday by the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
The Clark County School District has no social media or text-messaging policies for employee-student communications and heavily relies on a vague, outdated video to educate employees about sexual misconduct, a Review-Journal investigation has found.
People who work in Nevada’s public schools are supposed to have clean records. They’re fingerprinted and screened at the local, state and national levels for criminal histories — but the process is far from foolproof.
A three-part Review-Journal investigation finds sexual misconduct in the Clark County School District stems predominantly from three issues: the district’s contract with the teachers’ union, loopholes in background checks and insufficient employee training.
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The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.
Researchers are looking for people in the Las Vegas Valley with loved ones who have the disease also known as juvenile diabetes.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
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