Allegations of mismanagement at Quest Academy have led to the resignation of charter school President Christina Fuentes and prompted other board members to order Principal Connie Jordan to repay $15,000 in unmerited bonuses awarded to her by Fuentes.
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At the Henderson-based Lion Habitat Ranch, 382 E. Bruner Drive, people have a chance to see – or potentially hold and even train – more than 40 lions.
The lions had been at the MGM Grand until January 2012.
Upon graduating high school, students can usually expect to see their classmates again in 10 years. For some Las Vegas Academy graduates, it has become an annual thing.
Move fifth-graders to middle schools, construct elementary schools entirely of portable buildings, or have students attend school in two shifts, from 7 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 6 p.m.
Gov. Brian Sandoval announced his final appointments to the State Board of Education on Monday, choosing to keep President Stavan Corbett of Clark County on the board and adding Freeman Holbrook, a Reno middle school math teacher.
Holly Steed was a product of public schools and spent her career teaching high school music. But when she retired from Clark County School District after having her third child, she and her husband decided their children would try a different route.
Clark High School senior Monique Turner and three other underprivileged students received new gifts each day from Dec. 6-17 from nonprofit group In12Days.
The only armed personnel at Clark County School District campuses are the 140 school police officers. Two officers are permanently stationed at each of the 49 high schools.
A former student of Northwest Career and Technical Academy was arrested Friday morning after school police officers found an unloaded semiautomatic rifle inside his car while it was parked in the campus parking lot, Las Vegas police said.
