Officials at the Washoe County School District in Northern Nevada are celebrating a jump in the 2013 high school graduation rate.
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With Andre Agassi on hand, guitar great Carlos Santana made a donation of over 200 musical instruments to the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in a Tuesday afternoon presentation. The instruments were supplied by Hermes Music, LP Music and PRS guitars.
Don’t let the big price tags nix an application to Harvard or Yale. The average student receiving financial aid on those campuses paid about a quarter of the public sticker price and most graduates leave their ivy-covered quads with smaller debts than peers who attended less prestigious schools.
A small Kentucky liberal arts college lost out on one of the largest gifts in U.S. higher education history when the $250 million donation was withdrawn, school officials said Monday.
The Board of Regents, meeting in Elko, was told that the higher education system needs to invest a minimum of $60 million a year in deferred maintenance just to tread water, but is now spending only about a quarter of that amount.
A new campaign to encourage Nevada college students to take a full course load each semester to help them earn degrees more quickly was adopted Thursday by the Board of Regents.
CARSON CITY— Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey was chastised by some members of the Board of Regents on Thursday for what they viewed as her failure to properly plan for the budget impact of a new funding formula.
Durango High School will reopen Thursday after a day-and-a-half closure because of air conditioning problems. But the troubles aren’t over at the southwest valley high school or others across Clark County School District with failing parts.
Dale Erquiaga, a confidant of Gov. Brian Sandoval, was welcomed Wednesday by the state Board of Education to his first meeting as Nevada’s superintendent of public instruction.
While Clark County School District’s middle and high schools have 13,000 empty seats, the district’s elementary schools have 19,400 more students than their campuses were designed to accommodate, according to a head count on Aug. 28.
A later start to the school day could help teenagers get the most from their classroom time and local districts should consider delaying the first bell, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.
Classes in Beam Hall will return to normal schedule on Wednesday
It’s illegal nationwide to pass a school bus stopped with flashing lights, but that doesn’t prevent Nevada drivers from doing so close to three times per bus, per day.
Recurring errors, such as outdated federal financial aid applications, are likely what prompted the U.S. Department of Education to request a deeper review of student financial aid files from the College of Southern Nevada.
Union officials announced that members voted Wednesday night to approve the negotiated terms, leaving just the Clark County School Board to do the same at a Sept. 12 meeting.