The Clark County School Board on Thursday unanimously gave the initial green light for administrators to start the paperwork on issuing $500 million in new debt to pay for the construction of new schools and the repair or replacement of aging infrastructure.
An “honesty gap” study released Thursday by the nonprofit education reform group Achieve shows a 42-point discrepancy between the Nevada-reported proficiency scores in fourth-grade reading compared to the National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP.
Joshua Wolf Shenk, 44, will succeed current director Carol Harter as the head of the literary writing graduate center, department spokesman Joseph Langdon said in a news release.
The average American child gets his or her first cellphone at the age of 6, and it only goes up from there. A survey reported on by Education Week found that 51 percent of all high school students carry a smartphone with them to class everyday.
