Education
Not one of Clark County’s 357 public schools was a “low performer” last year, earning the bottom ranking of one star.
Though charges won’t be filed against two Clark County School District teachers on allegations that they had sex with a 16-year-old Basic High School student, they still won’t be returning to the classroom.
What good are clean-energy cars if the batteries that power them catch fire? That’s the problem a UNLV research team will try to unravel under a three-year, $2.5 million grant that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday.
More than 700 Clark County School District students were given ID cards last year in a trial tracking their whereabouts on school buses, according to Director of Transportation Frank Giordano.
For a group of about 200 high school students, their Nov. 15 breakfast was certainly the most important meal of the day. Students from across the Las Vegas Valley met with teachers and public officials for the 2012 Mayors Prayer Breakfast at Texas Station.
Wright Elementary School was built to hold about 800 students, but today it has an enrollment of more than 1,200. If something doesn’t change, it will be forced to turn back to year-round schooling.
Establishing more laws barring sex between teachers and students.
Despite overcoming the eleventh-hour drama with its teachers union over merely applying for a Race to the Top grant, the Clark County School District failed to make the list of 61 finalists for the $400 million federal program.
An autistic student knocked her out cold the first week on the job. But, more than a year later, Laranne Remling is still Western High School’s special education teacher for the severely handicapped – and so much more.
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce has received the Nevada Association of School Boards’ executive committee friend of education award for being a vocal advocate for public school students.