The Clark County School District next week will consider creating a policy that would require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Local Las Vegas
Las Vegas breaking news from Nevada's most reliable source. Read about the latest updates happening in Las Vegas at reviewjournal.com.
“We’ve got to be really careful protecting individual cases,” Clark County schools superintendent says of the decision to withhold the figures.
Documents show the health insurance trust that covers Clark County teachers was $43 million in debt as of February — the first indication of the scope of the deficit.
District representatives say “more than half” the requests were from licensed employees such as speech and language therapists, physical therapists and school psychologists.
Some pre-kindergarten through third-grade students returned to school Monday for a first day of instruction like no other.
The first day of school is always fraught with emotion, but Monday’s return to the classroom is expected to bringing an added dimension to the usual anxieties, experts say.
At a briefing at Eisenberg Elementary School in northwest Las Vegas, school district officials detail cleaning procedures and sickroom protocols.
Under its reopening plan, the district is relying on 340 first aid safety assistants — whose primary role is to provide first aid to students — to staff school sickrooms.
A week ahead of the day when pre-kindergartners through third-graders will return for in-person instruction, administrators wonder if they’ve prepared for everything.
All of the Clark County School District’s approximately 42,000 employees, as well as those of public charter schools, are now eligible to make appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine, the district said Wednesday.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara began his annual State of the Schools speech on Friday by focusing on the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures have had on the mental health of students and staff.
In a memo to employees Tuesday, the Clark County School District said employees who sign up earlier could be turned away or rescheduled at vaccination sites.
The Clark County School Board took two steps toward reopening school buildings, giving principals the ability to bring small groups of students back to campuses on a voluntary basis as well as approving an agreement with its teachers union aimed at a broader future reopening.
The board is expected to decide Thursday whether to allow small groups of students to return to the classroom after 10 months of distance learning.
Clark County School District students received more failing grades during the fall semester of distance learning than in previous school years, according to district data.