There are the famous three R’s: reading, writing and arithmetic. That’s old school. Inside University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ human sexuality class, it’s about the three P’s: polygamy, polyandry and polygyny. That’s new school.
Education
More than 60,000 Nevadans were deceived and misled into signing their support to a tax initiative that organizers claimed would generate $800 million for public schools, according to a state judge who struck down the initiative Tuesday.
Dana Gordin has met a lot of principals, but none like Paula Naegle of Webb Middle School. Gordin, the mother of two boys with food allergies, said raising them safely in public schools was a challenge. She credits Naegle, who recently received a Golden Hand Service Award, with making a difference by being a leading advocate in the Clark County School District for safety for students with food allergies.
Sponsored by the Department of Defense, Starbase Nellis is an education program that provides students with 25 hours of classroom learning and experiments, while introducing them to careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
An unlikely club at an unlikely school has students going green. Senior Kevin Olvarez started an environmental club last December at Burk Horizon High School, an alternative, behavioral and second-chance school for about 200 students, to promote conservation and recycling around campus.
Except for one building covering an acre, Nevada State College is 508 acres of vacant Henderson land waiting for a campus.
Ballot Question No. 2 asks voters for a six-year property tax rate increase to fund renovations and improvements at aging Clark County schools.
The Clark County School Board election won’t be a simple re-election in Henderson and southeast Las Vegas. That was made clear June 12 when incumbent Deanna Wright squeaked through the primaries.
Times are turbulent in the Clark County School District, and board member Chris Garvey wants to stay at the helm.
Northwest Las Vegas voters are the only residents who must choose between two new faces to represent them on the Clark County School Board, and both candidates argue their professional expertise is the missing ingredient in overseeing America’s fifth-largest school district.
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