The changes on the school board come after months of back and forth between the board and Superintendent Warren Shillingburg after the board extended his contract in December.
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The bill allocates $64.5 million for a new school, to replace a decades-old building that sits adjacent to a hydrocarbon plume.
A Nye County resident said he felt the school district had recovered from the pandemic slower than the rest of the state under the superintendent’s leadership.
Nevada and federal officials have teamed up on a program to provide food to students 18 and younger now through August.
The cause of the student’s death is being investigated by the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s office.
Legislators got their first chance Wednesday to consider two bills proposed by Gov. Joe Lombardo, during more than six hours of testimony.
Jose Montes, who faces child abuse and battery charges, was briefly sought in connection with the killing of a young boy before being cleared.
Teachers told Nevada legislators a law has hindered their ability to immediately deal with disruptive and violent students.
The incident marked the second such case in which a mother suspected of being intoxicated tried to pick up her child from an elementary school, officials said.
Years after officials shut down a Nye County boarding school, another facility on the same property is facing allegations that have led to fines and criminal charges.
The Owyhee Combined School was built in the 1950s adjacent to a hydrocarbon plume, and tribal leaders believe it is the cause of more than 100 of its members getting cancer.
Kelsi Jackson, an 18-year-old senior at Pahrump Valley High School, was awarded a $100,000 scholarship from the Charles and Phyllis M. Frias Charitable Trust and Public Education Foundation.
The event at Valley High School came the day after Gov. Joe Lombardo testified before the Assembly Committee on Education on a bill that would repeal a restorative justice law.
Southern Nevada graduating medical students celebrated their matches with residency programs Friday. But Nevada medical school deans fear a “brain drain.”
Superintendents and the state’s charter authority must appear at a meeting within 30 days to detail how they’d use the proposed funding, officials say.