The Henderson City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved — with the absence of Mayor Debra March — a resolution to give schools money from retail marijuana business license fees.
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The Clark County School District wants to build an 850-student school to ease overcrowding, while the city is holding out for a 700-student campus with a smaller footprint.
School district police say the officer, Scott Weissinger, 56, illegally entered a home and choked a student earlier this month.
Students at Green Valley High School have raised roughly $60,000 for the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund by selling Vegas Strong T-shirts to schools across the Clark County School District.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowksy says he is banning Trustee Kevin Child from district property after he repeatedly ignored the restrictions Skorkowsky put in place for visiting schools and staff.
Inclusion on the list means schools could be subject to state intervention because of poor performance.
Preliminary state data shows that only 43 percent of the schools that received grants to help struggling students improve their reading actually bettered their test scores in third grade. The majority showed a decline.
The freeze was imposed in August as the district began tackling a budget deficit estimated at $50 million to $60 million.
Two of the schools will open in Henderson for the 2018-2019 school year. The Henderson namesakes include Robert and Sandy Ellis, who have “adopted” 11 low-income schools throughout the Las Vegas Valley and donate socks and shoes to every student each year, and Shirley A. Barber, a former School Board member.
“We’re feeling the pinch in other areas, but not in a way that’s directly impacting kids,” Miller Middle School principal Nicole Donadio said.