A new group will serve as a clearinghouse for parents involved with school organizational teams as part of the state-mandated Clark County School District reorganization.
Education
The budget crisis facing the Clark County School District is no surprise. Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky predicted it just 19 months ago.
The rankings, which were expected in mid-September, will be delayed until December, state superintendent of instruction says.
State Public Charter School Authority appears to be nearing decision on whether to accept Nevada Connections Academy’s plan to improve its 37 percent high school graduation rate.
Nevada is among four states to get U.S. Education Department approval of its plan as required under a new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA.
School officials and parents say a new law intended to keep children safe from sexual predators in schools could lead to a substantial drop-off in volunteers, who are being asked to pony up for the privilege of helping out.
New leader of the Nevada System of Higher Education plans to hit the ground running after starting work on Monday.
University is saying nothing about how it will replace founding Dean Barbara Atkinson in the near term as she recovers from an intestinal rupture.
Former Clark County manager Thom Reilly will fill the post of chancellor for the Nevada System of Higher Education — which was vacant for more than a year — at an annual salary of $425,000.
The Opportunity Scholarship program for low-income students, received a one-time $20 million infusion after Democratic and Republican legislators were unable to agree on funding for education savings accounts.
Nate Mackinnon is unanimously approved as a vice chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education at an annual salary of $175,000.
Nevada students would be mandated to start school at age 5 and could start as young as 4 in pre-kindergarten programs under a bill introduced in the Assembly Wednesday.
Nevada students would have the opportunity to become bilingual as part of a dual-language immersion program presented during the Assembly education committee.
The Nevada Association of School Psychologists is lobbying legislators to eliminate the retention requirement for third-graders under the state’s Read by Grade Three initiative.
The five Clark County schools eligible for conversion to charter schools under a controversial state program will get a one-year reprieve after one of the charter operators became the subject of a formal investigation by federal agents.
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