Tim Bedwell, a candidate for Clark County sheriff, on Wednesday called for Las Vegas officers to police county schools instead of a separate school district police department.
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Threats circulating on social media this weekend of a planned high school shooting last Monday morning originated in Alabama, Clark County School District police confirmed Sunday.
Clark County schools had a chance to lead the nation in training employees on appropriate relationships with students but instead issued flawed videos that fail to address a number of concerns, according to experts who reviewed the new recordings at the request of the Review-Journal.
A student was arrested Friday after allegedly issuing a threat aimed at Cadwallader Middle School, Clark County School District officials announced Friday afternoon. It was the second arrest of a Clark County student this week.
Construction on the site of the complex ended in September with the project 73 percent complete because of disputes that arose between Midby, the project’s developer, and its former general contractor, the Korte Company.
The Clark County School Board once again delays a vote on whether to craft a policy on how to address the needs of gender-diverse students, sparking backlash at individual trustees from people on both sides of the controversial debate.
Police said the student called one of the district offices and made the threat, after which police were able to track him down and arrest him without incident Wednesday evening in a public place.
Scores of hands shot into the air Tuesday afternoon at Whitney Elementary School as the question came. “Who wants a bike?”
The Palo Verde High School social studies teacher worked in both the public and private sectors before heeding the call of the classroom. Yet it’s there that his friends and family say he made the biggest impact.
Twenty-eight schools in the county received grants this year to grow vegetables on their campuses. The program aims to offer students at high-poverty Title I schools lessons on healthy food choices.
D’Andre Burnett has attended six schools since the sixth grade, and he is not alone. More than one-quarter of students in the school district change schools at some point during the year, posing a difficult challenge for educators.
At a time when the state’s colleges are inwardly focused on their own strategic growth, they’re also being asked to look beyond Nevada’s borders for ways to make gains in student success.
There are lessons in the turnaround at French Elementary School, the principal says: Building trust with students and making them accountable for improving their academic performance bears fruit.
An elementary school teacher accused of child abuse grabbed a student by the neck after he refused to clean up his crayons, according to statements made in a Clark County School District police affidavit.
The school district, which hasn’t had a fatal shooting on campus since 1990, uses layers of armed officers, surveillance cameras and student and staff training to help keep its 358 district campuses safe.
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