The Clark County School District’s updated COVID-19 mitigation guidance no longer requires students to stay with a designated peer group during recess and other outdoor activities.
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The Clark County School District is making a handful of changes beginning Wednesday, including no mask requirement on school buses and eliminating mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing.
Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy of Nevada and its charter operator filed two lawsuits last week after trying for two years to get approval to open a local campus.
The Clark County School District held two events for reporters Thursday at east Las Vegas schools to promote the launch of its “When You Grow, We All Grow” campaign.
The state’s Legislative Commission voted Monday to approve a regulation that will allow the Clark County School District to hire substitutes who have only a high school diploma.
Trustees voted 6-1 on Thursday night to approve a notice of intent to revise an existing policy. The school district is required to take action under a new state law.
Attorneys from the Thomas More Society and Reno-based O’Mara law firm sent a demand letter Wednesday to the Clark County School District and East Career & Technical Academy.
Nevada System of Higher Education regents voted 9-3 on Thursday to conclude an investigation into Chancellor Melody Rose’s sex-based hostile work environment complaint and restore two board officers.
The university is accepting applications for its paraprofessional pathways project, which helps those already working in schools earn a bachelor’s degree and become a licensed teacher.
The Clark County School Board approved a $9 million settlement agreement Thursday in a case involving a former special education school bus driver who was sentenced to prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting preschoolers.
In August, the State Board of Health approved an emergency measure for spring in-person classes. But the state’s Legislative Commission failed in December to adopt a permanent requirement.
The voluntary program began Jan. 19 — the day classes resumed after the school district’s five-day “pause” — for those exposed in a school setting to a confirmed COVID-19 case.
Sonia Fernandez, who works at Ferron Elementary School in Las Vegas, is among three finalists so far in Tennant Company’s “Custodians Are Key” recognition campaign.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board voted Friday to conditionally approve a resubmitted application for Strong Start Academy Elementary School.
The Clark County School District released its latest batch of employee and student absence numbers on Friday following school campuses reopening this week.