Wendell Williams Elementary School is near the eighth-most dangerous neighborhood in the country, D Street, where residents have a one- in-nine chance of becoming a crime victim within a year, according to FBI statistics.
More than 90 percent of students live in poverty.
A school bus driver was alert and talking to rescuers after hitting a wall at a Las Vegas business on Thursday morning, authorities said.
Tuesday’s failed ballot question added insult to injury for a school district struggling to stay afloat on a dwindling budget.
School Board incumbent Deanna Wright was on the ropes coming into Tuesday’s election, barely earning the second spot on the ballot despite sitting on the board for four years.
A pair of Henderson high school seniors will be on the Katie Couric show today with their icon, actor Michael J. Fox, airing locally at 2 p.m. on KVVU-TV, Channel 5.
Students in Lisa Gioia-Acres’ Nevada history class at the College of Southern Nevada are learning the subject from the area’s primary sources.
About 20 longtime Las Vegans recently visited and met one-on-one with students to record interviews, which the students will use to write a research paper and make a presentation putting that person’s life in a historical context.
Kids asked adults the tough questions Oct. 16 during public forum at Las Vegas City Hall hosted by Leaders in Training. Ninth- and 10th-graders posed questions directly affecting them to challengers running for seats on the Nevada State Board of Education and the Clark County Board of School Trustees.
Principal Catherine Maggiore’s office at Vanderburg Elementary School is littered with New York Yankees memorabilia and pictures of shortstop Derek Jeter. But it is a recent addition to the room, a large baby blue plaque, that stands out. It reads: “2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools Award.”
Karen Phillips opened Clifford J. Lawrence Junior High School, 4410 S. Juliano Road, in 1999 as its inaugural principal.
