Education
University of Notre Dame student Caitlin Crommett started DreamCatchers, a nonprofit group that grants final wishes for senior citizens in hospice care, in California as a high school student. Now she’s looking to expand the club to schools and hospices in the Las Vegas Valley.
The International Black Aerospace Council hosted an aviation industry conference at the Las Vegas Hotel recently for about 40 youths. The group’s goal was to generate interest among black students in aerospace careers.
It was a different crop of prospective students that showed up Friday morning for orientation at the College of Southern Nevada. Instead of fresh-faced high school graduates, about forty mainly gray-haired military veterans gathered in hopes of improving their prospects.
The Southern Nevada Immunization and Health Coalition and its partners will sponsor back-to-school immunization clinics Aug. 18-25 to help families meet Nevada’s immunization requirements. Back-to-school events will begin with health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Teamsters Local 631, 700 N. Lamb Blvd.
A new high school girls basketball program plans to begin play this season in Southern Nevada.
The ritual is the same, even if the specifics differ from year to year. Hundreds of thousands of new high school graduates flood into the nation’s universities every fall.
The last of 419 laid-off teachers have been rehired by the same district that let them go.
Flag football will be a girls varsity sport in high schools this winter, costing the Clark County School District $225,000 for the first season as it tries to comply with federal requirements. Girls lacrosse is being considered for the 2013-14 school year.
Residents are supposed to vote on a property tax increase to fund $120 million in school improvement projects, but a lawsuit threatens to erase the question from the November ballot because of a technicality.
Nevada no longer will answer to No Child Left Behind but will use a self-created system for holding its public schools accountable, according to an announcement Wednesday by the Obama administration.
