BASIC HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1982 TO HOST 30-YEAR REUNION THIS WEEKEND
Education
Kevin Raiford, a business professor at the College of Southern Nevada, was recently ranked third on ratemyprofessors.com’s 2011-12 list of top professors.
Statistically, only one in four of these students would graduate from high school. With the help of the I Have a Dream Foundation, it will be nearly impossible for all of them not to.
He died twice in a rollover car accident. But that night April 29 was only the beginning of Pat McGuinness’ misery.
As it turns out, the graduation rate improved by more than predicted in Clark County high schools in 2011-12, jumping from 59 percent to 66 percent.
It was quite the crazy, cross-cultural scene: a 15-year-old student, a year and a half out of Thailand, beginning the first few pages of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” an American classic.
Membership for the local teachers union has dropped by 800 people, reducing its numbers to 62 percent of Clark County public school teachers.
High school is not a four-year foray for many students nowadays. Fifth-year seniors are more common than ever before, administrators say.
Nevada’s college-bound students are leaving high school with low chances of higher education success, according to their average SAT and ACT scores.
More students are attending Clark County public schools than ever before, according to a head count of 311,380 students on Friday.
On Sept. 7, three days before two Clark County teachers were arrested on accusations of having sex with a Henderson high school student, the Pahrump educator who was the catalyst for Nevada’s law against such acts was paroled after serving 16 years of a life sentence for raping a student.