The additional money will help support teachers by offering more professional development opportunities and improved classroom materials, Superintendent Jhone Ebert said.
Education
UNLV interim president Chris Heavey said the university was reshuffling diversity initiatives. The Office of Diversity Initiatives is being replaced.
The Clark County School District announced the death of a student at Smith Middle School in North Las Vegas.
History professor Gregory Brown has played a key role in improving education about Jewish identity and culture at UNLV since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel.
Newly-released data from the Nevada Department of Education showed districtwide improvements to English Language Arts and math proficiency across all grade levels.
A Las Vegas elementary school teacher has been arrested on charges “related to child abuse,” police said.
UNLV has erased references on its website to a student diversity office and a program for undocumented students, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has found.
The compact, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, asks universities to accept the government’s definition of gender and apply it to campus bathrooms, locker rooms and women’s sports teams.
An alleged series of racially motivated physical and verbal assaults created a hostile learning environment for an elementary school boy, a lawsuit claimed.
University of Nevada, Reno, President Brian Sandoval said a resource hub under federal scrutiny is not federally funded and is available to the entire campus community.
The UNLV investigation will examine whether the school “engaged in discriminatory practices based on race, color, or national origin against its students,” the Justice Department said.
On Friday, DOJ officials sent a investigation referral to Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon requesting to probe whether UNR is using tax dollars to “subsidize or promote illegal immigration.”
Gov. Joe Lombardo appointed Victor Wakefield as Nevada’s superintendent of public instruction to lead education reforms statewide.
The Clark County School District launched a survey about starting all schools 30 minutes later. Officials cite research linking later start times to improved performance and lower rates of depression.
One child was detained and released after police investigated reports of someone with a gun at a Las Vegas middle school after a social media threat, officials said.