Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis spoke to students during the Snack in the Garden with Giada event at Blackhurst Elementary School in Las Vegas on Friday.
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The senate’s resolution accuses CSN administrators, particularly Vice President of Academic Affairs Margo Martin, of excluding faculty from decision-making processes directly affecting them and their students.
The student, identified as local chapter president of Turning Point USA, was canned after being seen in a viral video saying “white power” and flashing the A-OK hand gesture.
Moses Damena, 15, started in the quiz bowl club at Sierra Vista this year, but his advisers said he has displayed more talent and interest in academics than “the typical player.”
Staton Elementary School teacher Nikki McGuire cried last year when she learned that her cancer had returned. But the tears weren’t only for herself: She was most upset about leaving her kindergarten students in the midst of a school year.
A new report criticizes the Clark County School District of operating with a culture of “relying on out-of-date practices with no apparent sense of urgency to bring it into the 21st century.”
The year before Clark County schools faced the first of two successive multimillion-dollar deficits, the Clark County School District missed out on $11.6 million in additional revenue because of tax abatements given to companies.
At least three area institutions are stepping up to help students who were displaced by last week’s sudden closure of Brightwood College, a private for-profit nursing school.
The school district has decided that Sandra B. Abston, Earl Jenkins and Helen Aileen Anderson Toland will be the namesakes of the next three schools opened in honor of their contributions to learning.
Support staff workers in the Clark County School District who were previously promoted may finally see back pay they are due if the School Board approves a $6.89 million settlement of a grievance filed more than five years ago.
An updated copy of a lawsuit announced last week by embattled Clark County School District Trustee Kevin Child includes half a dozen more defendants, including a former district official who filed a harassment complaint against the district over his behavior.
The combined average score on the standardized college admissions test edged up from 17.4 to 17.5 points — out of a possible 36 — though results showed improvement in three of four individual categories, the state announced Monday.
A former theater teacher at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts was arrested Sunday on a warrant that accuses him of engaging in sexual conduct with a student, authorities said.
Officer James Lescinsky, who was acquitted in a federal excessive force case in 2016, alleges that a tainted investigation left him branded as a liar and leaves him with no prospect of finding new employment.
Kevin Child cites sexual assault by an adult neighbor when he was 6 to illustrate his opposition to the Clark County schools’ new gender diversity policy, saying officials should focus on enforcing the state’s anti-bullying law instead.
