Dubbed Integrate 2, the project to merge financial services for the state’s colleges and universities will take at least another year to complete, project leaders and consultants told the state’s higher education board on Thursday.
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The decision by Nevada’s 13-member Board of Regents switches the name of the school’s campus at Cheyenne Avenue and Pecos Road to the “North Las Vegas Campus.” The plan was passed without discussion from the panel.
A recent Southwest Rotary Club Happy Feet program visit saw at-need students at Ferron Elementary receiving free new footwear. School counselor Julie Bellavia teamed with teachers to identify 50 students who could use new shoes and socks. She said sometimes the need is obvious at the school, where roughly 75 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
For some, school can be a place of inspiration and encouragement, but for others, it seems a waste of time. It’s not uncommon to hear students refer to it as a prison. In a way it is, claims northwest Las Vegas resident Robert B. Elliott, who founded Authentic Choices in Education & Schooling (ACES) Inc. The nonprofit is focused on making changes to allow schools to become more inviting, hospitable, beneficial, productive and educational.
Students at Marc Kahre Elementary School, 7887 W. Gowan Road, participated in the annual Marc A. Kahre Honor Day May 20. Kahre was a 15-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department who was killed in the line of duty Oct. 11, 1988.