New Clark County School District teachers may get pushed out midyear before guiding their students on to the next grade. The cash-strapped district, at an impasse with its teachers union over cost-saving measures, is bracing for about 1,000 possible layoffs of licensed staff. The ax will fall if an arbitrator sides with the Clark County Education Association, which has refused to grant $78 million in contract concessions.
When a citizen in Clark County kills someone, prosecutors are there from the start of the investigation, often looking over the shoulder of detectives even before the body is moved. But when a police officer kills someone, prosecutors are nowhere to be found.
Buyers of eight condominiums at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas gained ground in trying to reduce financial losses they suffered in arbitration when trying to recover their deposits. A judge on Tuesday ordered the arbitrator to redo part of his work, as well as recalculate legal fees. That could save the buyers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Prosecutors in many American cities step in as the public’s watchdog in the aftermath of a police shooting, but the Clark County district attorney’s office is content to sit on the sidelines. It doesn’t treat shootings by police like other homicides and it won’t even review an officer’s use of deadly force unless the sheriff or a chief of police requests it.
The wail of sirens and crack of gunshots were familiar sounds to the apartment dwellers at 2304 Tam Drive. In this area off the north end of the Strip known as the Naked City, it took more than that to get people’s attention.
Education will play an important role in Nevada’s economic recovery, according to those in attendance Tuesday at a town hall meeting featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and a host of state and local education leaders. “Jobs are going to go to where the knowledge workers are,” Duncan told a crowd of about 500 people at the College of Southern Nevada.
A legislative committee will undertake a $150,000 study to compare how Nevada and other states fund higher education. The Board of Regents by Sept. 1 are expected review the study and recommend changes in how higher education is funded for the Legislature to consider at its 2013 session.
