Education
Fernando Gomez-Garcia, 19, moved to Las Vegas from Germany to live with his father and enrolled at East Career and Technical Academy for a second chance at a high school education.
Nevada’s new schools superintendent hopes for a time when the state’s best teachers will earn $200,000 a year and top college graduates will choose teaching over professions that are traditionally more lucrative.
If you are a high school musician who has ever dreamed of playing in front of 10,000 people, here is your chance. The city of Henderson is inviting all Clark County high school students to participate in its inaugural Battle of the Bands competition for a chance to perform at the city’s Fourth of July celebration.
They kept up their grades, excelled in sports and received recognition for it. On May 23, Las Vegas Athletic Clubs recognized nearly 40 female student-athletes from across the Las Vegas Valley at its annual banquet at the Palms.
This school year the Clark County School District tested financial literacy programs at 12 high schools around the Las Vegas Valley, including the $mart Program, a series of web-based educational lessons by Washington, D.C.-based developer EverFi.
East Timor is a small country plagued with poverty in Southeast Asia. Clark High School student Nicolas Vaughn is trying to spur its economy by forming a club at the school that serves as a microbank, providing small loans to East Timorese.
Average class sizes of 32 students in the Clark County School District gave the struggling system a rare No. 1 distinction where it would rather be dead last.
On Nov. 6, voters will have to choose whether to increase property taxes to pay for Clark County public school improvements.