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Budgets of Northern Nevada community colleges were pushed one step closer to the chopping block on Wednesday.
A legislative committee supported a new funding formula Tuesday that would increase dollars to Clark County schools and decrease funding for all others in Nevada.
The Clark County School District estimated at the beginning of the summer that 2,000 seniors would take some form of summer school in an effort to graduate. In the end, a few more than 300 did, and an estimated 230 participated in an Aug. 15 graduation ceremony. One of those students was Henderson resident Oshea Alvarez, who enrolled in night school to supplement his high school classes and earn his diploma.
Alumni from Western High School’s class of 1972 are busy tracking down members for a 40th reunion planned for Oct. 19 and 20 at Texas Station.
Centennial Hills-area resident John Esperian can’t be kept from the classroom. The College of Southern Nevada professor is technically retired but plans to teach an English class this fall semester. His long career in education includes working as an assistant headmaster at the American International School in Vienna and interviewing late science fiction author Ray Bradbury.
Jydstrup Elementary School will always remember Kameron Asgari. The fifth-grader died in December, and the school commemorated him in a mural painted by volunteers this month in the school’s main hallway.