The Clark County School Board unanimously approved several changes on Thursday evening to its abstinence-based sex education curriculum for the upcoming school year.
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A law professor who was turned down for UNLV’s presidency may soon claim a job overseeing all of the state’s public colleges — a move drawing skepticism from legislators already bristling at the state of Nevada’s higher education system.
For the last few months, students within the Clark County School District developed proposals for space-related projects to be submitted to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. At a May 4 program at the Desert Research Institute, students from Batterman, Vanderburg and Wright elementary schools received word they were finalists for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education-sponsored program.
The Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center in Las Vegas hosted its annual graduation ceremony Wednesday for about 50 inmates.
Juniors and seniors from four area high schools attended a Student Leadership Symposium April 22 at Nevada State College, 1125 Nevada State Drive. It’s a fair bet that none of them expected to hear what motivational speaker Roy Juarez Jr. had to say.
The games students at Martin Middle School play don’t involve rapid hand-eye coordination, smartphones or exploding zombies. The Chess Club at the school is only in its second year, but it is already making a name for itself in the state.
Crimebusters! took place at the Veterans Tribute Career Techincal Academy, 2531 Vegas Drive, on May 2 and showed kids and their parents how to not only extract DNA from a strawberry but how facial reconstruction is used to help identify victims from skeletal remains, how to dust for fingerprints, how to use a microscope and several other ways science helps investigators solve crimes.
Central administration cuts, overhauling teacher training and increasing student class sizes helped balance the budget, which is about a $7 million increase in spending from 2015-16.
Plans to turn around Southern Nevada’s teacher shortage are in the hands of state lawmakers. A nonprofit group of almost 60 education, business and government leaders on Tuesday unveiled recommendations they came up with during five months of brainstorming sessions on how to improve schools.
Southern Nevada’s higher education institutions awarded a growing number of degrees this month, prolonging a yearslong surge at all three schools.