The services provided by Hazel Health will be offered at no cost to students, with parent or guardian consent. There’s no limit on the number of visits students can receive.
Education
Superintendent says no decisions have yet been reached on the timing of the reopening of the schools, which were ordered closed by Gov. Steve Sisolak on March 15.
The complaint filed by Trustee Danielle Ford alleges Superintendent Jesus Jara instructed a school district lobbyist to meet with school board candidate Jeff Proffitt.
About half of Southern Nevada’s public employee union contracts are set to expire in June, just as the financial damage from coronavirus closures will be made more clear.
The Clark County School District was unable to reach nearly a third of its 325,000 students during the second week of distance learning and counted attempts as a contact.
The move came after the Review-Journal reported that the district was unable to contact about 21 percent of students in the first week of classes after the schools shut down.
Parents will be asked to provide either the student’s ID card, or the student’s name, identification number, school site and grade level, the district said Thursday.
Four teachers and one administrator who traveled to Seattle last week will not return to their school for two weeks as a precaution related to coronavirus, the district said.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
The Clark County School District will offer interest-free loans to some employees who have been affected by the payroll issues that have plagued the district since early January.
David McKinnis, who joined the district in April 2019, announced Monday that he is leaving the district effective Friday due to personal family reasons.
Though his tempestuous time on the School Board ends Monday, Kevin Child will continue to do battle with the Clark County School District through his ongoing lawsuit.
The Clark County School Board will hear from the public once more before deciding whether instruct the superintendent to draft a new policy and regulation for gender-diverse students.
Recent Clark County School District meetings on a gender-diverse policy drew big crowds, but public discussions of the superintendent search or the recent budget deficit were sparsely attended.
D’Andre Burnett has attended six schools since the sixth grade, and he is not alone. More than one-quarter of students in the school district change schools at some point during the year, posing a difficult challenge for educators.
