The recommendations will be taken into consideration as Gov. Brian Sandoval creates a proposed biennial budget for the 2019 legislative session. But the term-limited governor’s successor will ultimately determine if any are funded.
Education
A series of emails obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show how Maureen Schafer, former chief of staff for the medical school, hired Ernest Lupinacci as a branding and marketing consultant and skirted policies and procedures to pay him.
For three years running, the Las Vegas-based Rogers Foundation has provided full-ride scholarships to Kentucky Wesleyan College, a small, faith-based liberal arts college near Louisville, for local students with drive and passion.
High school and college students expected to walk out of classes as part of a national event to remember the victims of last month’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and call attention to school safety and gun laws.
State Superintendent Steve Canavero said Wednesday he plans to leverage funds from three different nonprofits to hire a consultant from a district that has undergone a similar process to the one Clark County is going through.
The Nevada Board of Regents in early January will get its first look at a proposed UNLV Joint-Use Agreement for the 65,000-seat domed football stadium being built by the Oakland Raiders after the university and the team resolved every major issue in negotiations that wrapped up last week.
Around 70 students, teachers and local advocates gathered outside of Rancho High School Wednesday afternoon, sharing stories of their run-ins with DACA and calling on American citizens to support immigrants.
On Wednesday, the College of Southern Nevada hosted its Fall 2017 Career Fair that was open to students and to the public. Public job seekers were 40 percent of the 450 participants, officials said.
Over the past four years, mental health appointments at UNLV have skyrocketed. The 64 percent increase from 2012, has put a strain on wellness center staff, leading to long wait times for intake appointments — sometimes as much as four weeks.
Twelve high school students, each facing a laptop and timer on a chair, sat poised in a classroom at UNLV. Matt Gomez, the debate lab leader, instructed the students to set the timer for five minutes and pull up the lengthy evidence files on their screens.
Decision by the Employee-Management Relations Board means the school district’s thousands of teachers will not face more stringent requirements in order to qualify for salary bumps.
Expert signed on to be guest speaker at school district roundtable on Thursday to publicly unveil draft policy on staff-student relationships and communication says “crisis” is also an “opportunity.”
School district IT officials call it a “non-issue,” saying fewer than 20 machines were infected.
A system for growing vegetables in the desert has won this year’s Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition.
Nearly 2,900 undergraduate, graduate and professional students participated in UNLV’s spring commencement ceremonies. That’s about 11 percent more than the 2,593 who earned degrees last May.
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