Miguel Cardona was in Las Vegas to discuss pandemic-era mental wellness challenges, and to tout the Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Act.
Education
Attorneys from the Thomas More Society and Reno-based O’Mara law firm sent a demand letter Wednesday to the Clark County School District and East Career & Technical Academy.
Nevada System of Higher Education regents voted 9-3 on Thursday to conclude an investigation into Chancellor Melody Rose’s sex-based hostile work environment complaint and restore two board officers.
The university and clinic have received five more years of funding from the National Institutes of Health to support Southern Nevada’s first Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
The university is accepting applications for its paraprofessional pathways project, which helps those already working in schools earn a bachelor’s degree and become a licensed teacher.
The family of a UNLV student who died following a fraternity-sponsored boxing match in November has filed a lawsuit against the university and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Despite Nevada’s mask requirement being lifted, some CCSD students said they would continue wearing masks at school because of crowded conditions.
The Clark County School Board approved a $9 million settlement agreement Thursday in a case involving a former special education school bus driver who was sentenced to prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting preschoolers.
In August, the State Board of Health approved an emergency measure for spring in-person classes. But the state’s Legislative Commission failed in December to adopt a permanent requirement.
A girl was cited for battery for allegedly punching another student in class on Wednesday.
The voluntary program began Jan. 19 — the day classes resumed after the school district’s five-day “pause” — for those exposed in a school setting to a confirmed COVID-19 case.
Sonia Fernandez, who works at Ferron Elementary School in Las Vegas, is among three finalists so far in Tennant Company’s “Custodians Are Key” recognition campaign.
Michael Green, an associate professor of history at UNLV, recently added to the body of Abraham Lincoln literature with “Lincoln and Native Americans,” which examines Lincoln’s actions regarding Native Americans.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board voted Friday to conditionally approve a resubmitted application for Strong Start Academy Elementary School.
The Clark County School District released its latest batch of employee and student absence numbers on Friday following school campuses reopening this week.