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Budgets of Northern Nevada community colleges were pushed one step closer to the chopping block on Wednesday.
A legislative committee supported a new funding formula Tuesday that would increase dollars to Clark County schools and decrease funding for all others in Nevada.
The Clark County School District estimated at the beginning of the summer that 2,000 seniors would take some form of summer school in an effort to graduate. In the end, a few more than 300 did, and an estimated 230 participated in an Aug. 15 graduation ceremony. One of those students was Henderson resident Oshea Alvarez, who enrolled in night school to supplement his high school classes and earn his diploma.
Alumni from Western High School’s class of 1972 are busy tracking down members for a 40th reunion planned for Oct. 19 and 20 at Texas Station.
Centennial Hills-area resident John Esperian can’t be kept from the classroom. The College of Southern Nevada professor is technically retired but plans to teach an English class this fall semester. His long career in education includes working as an assistant headmaster at the American International School in Vienna and interviewing late science fiction author Ray Bradbury.
Jydstrup Elementary School will always remember Kameron Asgari. The fifth-grader died in December, and the school commemorated him in a mural painted by volunteers this month in the school’s main hallway.
Two cheerleaders squeeze onto the last chair left, bracing their legs to not spill off the sides.
State funding to Great Basin and Western Nevada colleges would dwindle by a third if lawmakers support the Board of Regents’ recommended budget using a new performance-based formula, starting in 2013.
The Nevada State Education Association has begun to circulate its petition to levy a business tax to raise money for education, although a new legal challenge could lead to any signatures being declared invalid.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
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Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
Experts said there are significant safety hazards that in-flight turbulence poses to airline passengers and crews. Injuries have piled up over the years.
A coalition of residents and activists called on the Biden administration to issue heat protections for outdoor workers and declare climate change a national emergency.