The Nevada Department of Education on Wednesday awarded nearly $3.2 million in federal grants to five existing and potential charter schools.
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The for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services, which operates two campuses in Southern Nevada, has stopped enrolling new students.
Zachary Cabanski is a senior at UNLV. He plans to become a teacher. He almost flunked out.
As slower speed zones and approximately 320,000 students returned to Clark County schools Monday, parents and teachers described the 2016-17 academic year as one of transition.
Michael Flores knows what it’s like to grow up without a strong male influence in his life. As founder of the nonprofit Nevada Youth Network, Flores now wants to recruit others as male role models for the kids he serves.
The speeding days of summer are over. Monday marks the start of a new school year for most children across Clark County — just the right time for drivers to get a crash-course on some road rules.
The Clark County School District appears to have made great strides in shrinking its chronic teacher shortage. Praise for the district’s recruiting efforts, however, appears a bit premature as additional data reveals a more tangled narrative behind the success.
Elected officials and other dignitaries Saturday morning celebrated the rededication of the recently restored Historic Westside School.
The Clark County district attorney’s office will not investigate the allegations of wrongdoing against Christopher Klemp, an internal affairs investigator in the Clark County School District’s police department.
As colleges in Southern Nevada prepare to welcome students for the upcoming academic year on Monday, early enrollment numbers appear mostly steady compared with this time last year.
The state’s Board of Regents has begun drafting a wish list for a permanent leader to oversee the Nevada System of Higher Education, a powerful job left vacant after this year’s contentious retirement of former Chancellor Dan Klaich.
Las Vegas Councilman Ricki Barlow and Mayor Carolyn Goodman are among the elected officials who will rededicate the historic building Saturday morning.
During a winding, five-hour discussion about how the Board of Regents governs the Nevada System of Higher Education and its eight institutions, regents weighed a plan to change how they oversee some schools.
Nevada’s higher education board convenes near Lake Tahoe on Thursday for a high-stakes special meeting to consider changing how the state’s colleges are governed.
A new report from ACT Inc., the private company that administers the college-entrance exam nationwide, shows Nevada performed the worst among 18 states that had moved from voluntary to mandatory participation in the test.
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