Luke Werner, who has Williams syndrome, is still a fixture at Clark High School 36 years after graduating. He helps out with the sports teams and is a hall monitor on Mondays and Fridays.
Education
Cuts, cuts, cuts. “It seems like that’s all I’ve done for 11 years,” said Keith Rheault, reflecting back on more than a decade of decisions as Nevada’s superintendent of public schools. “All we’ve been doing is playing defense.”
It has been 20 years since Brandi Bundy stepped off that school bus in front of her Overton home. Twenty years since her friends crossed the street before she did.
Clark County’s Amanda Titolo beat 12 other county winners for the Nevada state championship in the Poetry Out Loud competition and a spot at the national finals in Washington, D.C.
The chancellor’s proposal to rewrite the formula used to fund colleges and universities could mean huge gains for the institutions in Southern Nevada.
Hundreds of elementary students won’t be going to the middle schools they expected to attend.
A labor union president was criticized Thursday for turning the death of 11-year-old Allen Elementary School student Kaylee Derks — who was struck and killed by a school bus Friday — into a political argument.
“Kiss that pig!” shouts Mario Mendiaz, while hopping on the blacktop to see past hundreds of classmates outside North Las Vegas’ Scott Elementary School.
Second-graders at Thorpe Elementary School, 1650 Patrick Lane, recently performed “It’s a Small World,” a musical of sorts based on the popular ride at Disney theme parks. Teacher Susan Maddox usually directs four or five educational shows each school year.
Local students Ciera Cypert and Matt Soto recently spoke to a crowd of local philanthropists and business and government leaders about their experiences advocating for charitable causes at the Philanthropy Leaders Forum March 1.
UNLVino is planned from March 22-24 and is scheduled to kick off March 22 with the Bubble-Licious event at the Cleveland Cinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
Stephen Nasser was 13 when the Nazis broke into his home and forced him and his family on a train to Auschwitz. He and four other Holocaust survivors told their stories to middle and high school students and their teachers Feb. 15 as part of the Holocaust Education Conference at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy.
