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The Utah Shakespeare Festival has performances of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre on the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus. Las Vegas Academy graduate Kristen Henley will play the role of Puck.

“We need your help.” That is the Clark County School District’s stance. The district launched the Watch Us Grow campaign and website this month in conjunction with Superintendent Dwight Jones’ State of the District address Jan. 5 at Chaparral High School.

Eleven students at Hyde Park finished in the top 1 percent in the Mathematical Association of America’s American Mathematics Contest 8, an international competition held in November. One Hyde Park student, Ian Johnson, got a perfect score for the second year in a row. Hyde Park is one of the Clark County School District’s magnet schools.

For kids new to the country and the English language, a 3,000-student high school and class sizes of 40 to 50 probably do not make for the most effective learning environment. A small campus in the Sunrise area caters especially to such students.

Something changes when students with disabilities make the transition from high school to college. The burden of education shifts from school to student. That point was made clear for about 500 college-bound seniors with learning disabilities, as the Clark County School District’s Student Support Services Division hosted three days of workshops at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Thousands of students in the Clark County School District rely on their schools for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Extended breaks from school, such as the two weeks at the end of last month, can be especially trying for struggling families.