Bilingual education is set to make a comeback in the Clark County School District with a gradual rollout of English and Spanish hybrid programs in three schools by the 2022-23 school year.
Aleksandra Appleton
The Clark County School District is investigating an incident in which videos were taken from an officer’s personal social media account and dubbed before being widely shared.
A new method of allocating what were once known Senate Bill 178 funds, or weighted funding, has cost some schools hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Clark County school board on Thursday heard the amended final budget for the 2020-2021 school year, including an update on how the district has allocated its federal emergency relief fund allocations.
Nevada’s high school graduation rates slipped for the Class of 2020 after several years of steady gains, according to state data released Thursday.
It’s not clear whether any of them were exposed to the coronavirus at schools.
Monday was the first day of school at a handful of local campuses that are offering in-person instruction amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Proposed cuts to Nevada’s education budget are expected to disproportionately impact the state’s poor and minority students, and advocates and some lawmakers are pushing for the Legislature to find ways to keep those programs whole.
Preliminary results in the race for the Clark County School District Board of Trustees show incumbent Lola Brooks, Lisa Guzman, Katie Williams and Barbara Dreyer leading.
Furloughs, elimination of teaching positions, new student fees all envisioned as Nevada System of Higher Education sketches out potential cuts over next two years.
Four teachers and one administrator who traveled to Seattle last week will not return to their school for two weeks as a precaution related to coronavirus, the district said.
UNLV’s acting President Marta Meana will not apply to stay in the role permanently, she said in a message to faculty, staff and students Monday morning.
The Clark County School Board will end prayers at its meetings after a complaint from a nonprofit that defends the constitutional separation between religion and government.
Eldorado High School Principal David Wilson’s complaint says district officials made “materially false, misleading and harmful statements” about him to local media outlets.
Antonio Rael was accused at last week’s School Board meeting of enacting sweeping changes at Clark High School, creating tension between students and driving away teachers.