Childhood literacy will receive a
$71 million helping hand in Nevada, Superintendent of Public Schools Keith Rheault announced Friday.
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Centennial High School players hired an attorney to threaten a lawsuit. They tongue-lashed Clark High School at a School Board meeting. Their coach scolded Clark High School players on Facebook.
Neal Smatresk, the president of UNLV, said a scholarship program formally announced Thursday would one day grow to become one of the largest in the country.
Can the poorest performing schools in one of the nation’s poorest performing school districts improve? That’s what U.S. Department of Education Deputy Secretary Tony Miller, came to find out Thursday at Western High School.
About 134 teacher positions were pulled off the chopping block Wednesday after an arbitrator sided with the Clark County School District over who will pay $10 million in increased teacher retirement costs. The money represents an increase in payments that public employees make to the state’s retirement plan.
Lexi Eng has been fighting an uphill battle all five years of her life. She was born four months early and weighed just over a pound. She also is deaf and has cerebral palsy.
Luke Werner, who has Williams syndrome, is still a fixture at Clark High School 36 years after graduating. He helps out with the sports teams and is a hall monitor on Mondays and Fridays.
Cuts, cuts, cuts. “It seems like that’s all I’ve done for 11 years,” said Keith Rheault, reflecting back on more than a decade of decisions as Nevada’s superintendent of public schools. “All we’ve been doing is playing defense.”