A student at Foothill High School was arrested on Wednesday after an assault on a teacher.
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A group of Las Vegas teachers organized the protest Wednesday after warning Clark County school administrators for months of rising violence.
Police said they responded to the 1100 block of Green Valley Parkway at 3:26 p.m., police said, adding that the situation was still active as of 4:15 p.m.
The lesson was attempting to teach students about seeing past stereotypes, according to an email sent Wednesday morning to parents and students.
The district has seen over 1,000 logged citations and arrests since January and over 3,000 assaults, battery cases and fights since the start of the school year, CCSD Police Chief Henry Blackeye said.
A school police officer used pepper spray to break up a Monday altercation at Foothill High School, principal Jonathan Synold told parents in a Monday email.
The Clark County School District has been “in critical need of drivers” this school year with 250 driver and transportation vacancies.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara delivered his yearly “State of the Schools” address Friday, with the theme “Emerging Stronger Together.”
The Clark County School District’s updated COVID-19 mitigation guidance no longer requires students to stay with a designated peer group during recess and other outdoor activities.
The Clark County School District is making a handful of changes beginning Wednesday, including no mask requirement on school buses and eliminating mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing.
At a time when anatomy increasingly is taught using interactive touch screens and models, Touro University’s leaders believe in the importance of learning by dissecting actual bodies, medicine’s centuries-old rite of passage.
The Clark County School District released its latest batch of employee and student absence numbers on Friday following school campuses reopening this week.
The Clark County School District announced Friday it will change start and end times at more than half of its campuses next school year. Most are an adjustment of less than 30 minutes.
Both employee and student absences were higher than normal as the district resumed in-person teaching in the midst of a rapid surge of coronavirus around the Las Vegas Valley.
The site at 851 E. Tropicana Ave., just east of Paradise Road, across from UNLV’s Thomas Mack Center, will be closed from Sunday through Christmas.