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Clark High School hosted a Hawaiian-themed dance for students with disabilities Feb. 17. For many of the special education students, it was their first dance and a chance to interact as their typical education peers do.
Stephen Nasser was 13 when the Nazis broke into his home and forced him and his family on a train to Auschwitz. He and four other Holocaust survivors told their stories to middle and high school students and their teachers Feb. 15 as part of the Holocaust Education Conference at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy.
Patrick Spargur and Don Purdue are learning to run a nonprofit organization on the fly. Less than three months after starting Project 150 LV, they have helped feed and clothe hundreds of kids at nearly 20 high schools throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
They put on their hardhats and pack into a mineshaft elevator. Later, they examine rare minerals and pan for gold to take home with them. We are talking about fourth-graders, of course. Those are some of the activities they can experience at the McCaw School of Mines, one of the Clark County School District’s most popular field trip destinations.
Students in the Boyd Financial Law Society at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are offering free tax preparation assistance for people with low to moderate incomes through the IRS-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program at the Cambridge and Whitney recreation centers.
Kids at Wengert Elementary School are taking the law into their own hands by patrolling the school’s playground as anti-bullying safety officers who issue citations for name-calling and fighting.