The Clark County School District is making a handful of changes beginning Wednesday, including no mask requirement on school buses and eliminating mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing.
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The site at 851 E. Tropicana Ave., just east of Paradise Road, across from UNLV’s Thomas Mack Center, will be closed from Sunday through Christmas.
Three employee unions say no formal negotiations have occurred yet with the Clark County School District after the School Board approval of COVID-19 vaccinations on Sept. 2.
The offering is made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Community Eligibility Provision, which serves schools and school districts with a high poverty rate.
The Clark County School District reports 728 new COVID-19 cases so far this month, but the overall impact is not clear because it isn’t saying how many have been “excluded.”
Clark County School Board President Linda Cavazos says she has received threats following the board’s decision last week to move forward with mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for employees.
The Clark County School District next week will consider creating a policy that would require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
“We’ve got to be really careful protecting individual cases,” Clark County schools superintendent says of the decision to withhold the figures.
Teachers reported long lines at district testing sites on Tuesday, including more than 100 people at Mojave High School in North Las Vegas at the height of the rush.
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.
Hundreds of students at the Clark County School District have been quarantined or isolated as a result of COVID-19 exposures or positives since in-person learning resumed.
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.
Just shy of a year after he became “Patient Zero” in Nevada’s COVID-19 outbreak, Ronald Pipkins is still battling the lingering effects of the coronavirus.
At a briefing at Eisenberg Elementary School in northwest Las Vegas, school district officials detail cleaning procedures and sickroom protocols.