Sports Leadership and Management Academy of Nevada — a tuition-free public charter school in Henderson — plans to bring its sixth graders to campus for some in-person classes starting in mid-October.
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Nevada State College’s School of Education will use its five-year, $2.73 million U.S. Department of Education grant to help with growing more local teachers — an effort to alleviate the teacher shortage.
MGM Resorts International said Friday that it would provide its employees with discounted rates to child care, tutoring and computer equipment.
A Clark County School District PE teacher has turned to GoFundMe to replace the value of thousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen from her classroom.
A Nevada System of Higher Education committee interviewed four finalists Wednesday at UNLV. The Board of Regents is slated to vote Thursday on who to hire.
Clark County School District representatives said a guide will be released in the next couple of weeks to answer families’ questions about distance learning this fall.
More than 4,700 Nevada teaching licenses are set to expire within the next four months, the Department of Education said Monday.
Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer Jr. started on June 1, the Henderson-based university said. He was previously at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami.
The resumption of school in August may vary across Nevada, Gov. Steve Sisolak says, as solutions like social distancing will likely not be possible in Clark County schools.
In court minutes Thursday, Judge Timothy Williams wrote: “For this Court to decide this issue, it is best to have a full and fair evidentiary hearing.”
Several Coronado High School graduates bound for elite universities aren’t sure whether their classes will be online yet, but they aren’t letting that possibility dampen their enthusiasm.
During the Friday night ceremony, graduating seniors received their diplomas in their cars, then took an approximately 1-mile “victory lap” around the speedway.
The Education Support Employees Association says the district’s nine- and 10-month-a-year workers often rely on summer jobs to get by, but opportunities are limited this year.
‘Quaternity’ is a 70-minute collection of music by the 65-member orchestra.
While the UNLV campus is closed because of coronavirus concerns, nobody is using the Lied Library — save for one dutiful skeleton.