Village of Hope Las Vegas provides a safe environment for 20 students from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in a neighborhood riddled with crime and poverty. About 85 percent of Whitney’s students are homeless. The school has food and clothing pantries for families and provides financial assistance with utility bills, among other programs.
You can see his paintings in galleries in Bologna, Italy; New York City, Los Angeles and locally at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, 450 Fremont St., Suite 280. However, Michael Cababe’s biggest exhibit is at Bracken Elementary School, 1200 N. 27th St. Cababe became the school’s art teacher four years ago and transformed the campus into a canvas that he and his students add to each semester.
The Clark County School District is testing a new iPad pilot program at four schools in an effort to improve math proficiency scores. About 1,150 students were given iPads instead of textbooks, preloaded with Fuse Algebra textbooks and software. Each iPad costs $687, including software, for a total of about $790,000.
For the first time ever, more than 55 percent of Clark County public school students qualified for free or reduced price lunches in 2010-11, meaning their parents’ income was low enough to qualify for the federal program.
Nevada’s bid to free public schools from the tightening grasp of No Child Left Behind, which demands an increasing number of students test as proficient each year, has been delayed.
Students paid Nevada’s colleges and universities more than $220 million in tuition and fees last year, but higher education officials say it’s not enough.
