A panel of state lawmakers received a crash course Tuesday on Nevada’s complex public education funding plan in advance of detailed budget hearings in the 120-day legislative session that begins Monday.
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The Nevada commission charged with overseeing nuclear waste issues on Tuesday warned that it expects Congress to seek funding to revive the shuttered Yucca Mountain repository project this year.
The president of the University of Nevada, Reno is recommending that students and scholars from countries listed in the president’s order on immigration remain in the United States for at least the next four months.
Four refugees approved for resettlement and due to arrive in the Las Vegas Valley in the next two weeks have had their flights canceled following President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, a representative of their sponsor organization said Monday.
Two-thirds of the completed applications for the state’s Education Savings Account program come from households making less than $50,000 a year, data provided Monday by the state treasurer’s office shows.
North Las Vegas Youth Legislature member Da’Vione Lomax isn’t old enough to vote, but she can still have her voice heard.
Samantha Ostrovsky got into in politics the same way many others do. She had connections.
Though they can’t vote yet, 15-year-old Olivia Yamamoto and 16-year-old Brooklyn Darmody still want their voices heard.
More than 100 protesters demonstrated inside a McCarran International Airport terminal Sunday against the Trump administration’s travel ban on immigrants and refugees from seven countries.
If lawmakers are serious about equity in education funding, they‘ll increase school spending in Nevada’s richest neighborhoods. The highest-income neighborhoods in Clark County receive far less school funding than poorer areas.