Signs of excess are everywhere on the Strip, but the Clark County School District struggles to fill even basic needs. Why are our schools starving?
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The elimination of a program for at-risk high school students and a first round of job reductions are occurring even as schools wait for final figures on how much they must carve out.
A district official said that because of an accounting error, schools were mistakenly asked to cut their budgets too deeply.
Data released Friday on the state Education Department’s website include more detailed information on how individual schools scored than a preliminary release earlier this week.
Just a month after spending their summer vacations decorating their classrooms and getting to know students, first-year Bruner Elementary School teachers Madonna Hakim and Emily Rios face being sent to another school or laid off.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky announced Thursday that he will step down when his current contract concludes at the end of June 2018.
As a child, Apoorva Chauhan went to the library regularly with her family. She would read favorite books such as “Black Beauty” or the “Percy Jackson & the Olympians” series, which served as “a doorway to new worlds and adventures” when life became tough.
Less than 60 percent of applicants are admitted to magnet and career-tech schools, despite growth in number of available slots in recent years. The schools’ performance tells why they exert such a strong pull.
In school district survey, school administrators say they would like control over more areas, everything from hours the custodians work to whether they use district tech support to fix computers.
Trustee Kevin Child’s call for an in-depth independent examination of the district’s books gains additional support as budget shortfall widens.