Jesus Jara gave his second State of Our Schools address Friday, emphasizing the need for equity in programs districtwide and praising excellent schools and principals.
Education
Clark County School District middle school-age girls toured the HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas, played Fortnite and listened to speakers during Battle Born Girls Innovate, a program designed to teach them about careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
In town hall-style meetings in Las Vegas, university officials seek to reassure nervous parents — with limited success.
Students participated in the Derfelt Back-to-School event on Wednesday at Defelt Senior Center at 3343 W. Washington Ave.
Rural districts would be frozen at fiscal 2020 funding levels until the amount they receive under the new funding formula matches what they’re currently getting.
The students were fighting around 2:15 p.m. Friday on a street adjacent to Chaparral High School when family members of one of the students arrived on scene and drew a firearm, Clark County School District police said.
Jessica Hill and Enes Djesevic, who grew up just a few miles apart in southwest Las Vegas, are among the 60 students in the second class at the UNLV School of Medicine.
When Jacquelyn Trujillo walked across a Henderson Pavilion stage Thursday to receive her diploma from Nevada Virtual Academy, her graduation cap hinted of the challenges she has faced.
Nate Mackinnon, vice chancellor for community colleges for the Nevada System of Higher Education, reported Thursday that 1,318 students remain eligible to receive scholarship money for the fall semester.
Some schools are achieving stellar results after participating in the initiative to lift struggling schools, but some others sank back into mediocrity after exiting the program, a Review-Journal analysis shows.
The Clark County School District will have another set of eyes on its books after a state committee put the cash-strapped public school system on a financial watch list.
Nevada’s top education official is pushing back against Clark County school officials’ assertion that part of the district’s budget deficit was caused by declines in state funding, pinning the blame on poor planning and management on the district’s part.
The Nevada Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a Las Vegas case seeking guidance on what factors apply in determining where a child of a divorced couple should attend school
An arbitrator ordered the Clark County School District to pay $19.5 million in salary increases and benefits for the district’s 1,300 administrators, resolving a dispute over the 2015-2017 contract for the Clark County Association of School Administrators and Professional-Technical Employees.
Las Vegas eighth-grader Maia Marshall finished the preliminary rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee just one place shy of earning a spot in the finals.