UNLV’s Center for Business Economic Research hosted its annual economic forecasting event, noting Southern Nevada’s economy still remains vulnerable to surges in COVID-19 cases.
Education
The Clark County School District’s bond oversight committee is recommending spending about $3.5 billion on dozens of facility projects over the next 14 years.
The Clark County School Board on Thursday approved an initial plan for spending more than $770 million in federal coronavirus relief money over the next three years.
Amazon announced Thursday it would invest $1.2 billion by 2025 into expanding a program that gives education and skills training benefits to thousands of its U.S. employees.
Fisticuffs at Valley High School in Las Vegas prompted a police response and a subsequent e-mail from the school’s principal to parents about problems with pupil behavior.
A new school year began Monday for more than 300,000 students in the Clark County School District with full-time in-person classes and distance learning options.
The university is considering a new policy that would prohibit smoking, including the use of electronic cigarettes, and tobacco products in all spaces on campus.
The changes come amid a national vaccination campaign in which children as young as 12 are eligible to get shots, as well as a general decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
The Southern Nevada Health District is holding a series immunization clinics for incoming kindergartners throughseventh-graders before school starts next month.
Formerly an emergency response to school closures, distance learning may become a permanent fixture on Nevada’s learning landscape.
The super musicians connected to the UNLV Jazz Studies program have been honored, significantly and once again, by the prestigious DownBeat Student Music Awards.
Vassiliadis Elementary School in northwest Las Vegas apologized to parents Monday after the political cartoon video was shown to students on International Women’s Day.
Efforts by Democratic groups to get UNLV to revoke authorization for a campus chapter of the national conservative student organization Turning Point USA have come up empty.
Two UNLV engineering students won the university’s senior design competition last month with a timely project — a microwave for COVID-19 disinfection.
The Clark County School Board will consider Thursday night whether to reopen school campuses under a hybrid model — a change that would take effect in January.
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