With more of his reforms in shambles than in action, Superintendent Dwight Jones will leave the Clark County School District halfway through his four-year contract. Hired in October 2010 for a $358,000 annual compensation package, Jones publicly announced his departure Tuesday. His last day is March 22, well short of his contractual requirement to give 90 days’ notice, School District sources said.
After recently reading the true story “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,” students at Robinson Middle School set out to fold 1,000 paper cranes for Children’s Hospital of Nevada at University Medical Center.
CARSON CITY — An initiative to tax businesses grossing more than $1 million a year gets its first hearing before state lawmakers and will headline the discussion as the Nevada Legislature enters its fifth week.
When lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval touted a package of education overhauls two years ago that were set to change the face of education in Nevada, they expected the key piece of the project — a high-stakes teacher evaluation — to be ready to go this year.
Nevada’s public colleges and universities must better embrace online education, or their students will go elsewhere.
Forbuss, Reedom and Wright elementary schools will move to year-round schedules in the fall to deal with crowding, Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones decided Friday afternoon.
Nevada’s schools chief faced a barrage of retorts Friday from state lawmakers after suggesting class sizes shouldn’t be high on their education priority list.
