The local School Board could undergo a face change this November. Four of the seven positions are up for grabs as a battle continues between Clark County School District officials and the teachers union over educators’ working terms.
Education
The catalogue listing next semester’s College of Southern Nevada classes is coming out this week. Early registration starts May 1, and your payment’s due on June 1. That deadline is 2½ months earlier than it used to be for good reason, the college’s adminstrators say.
Adjusting to a college environment from high school is hard enough. For those who have been away at war during the past decade, an ally on campus can make a big difference. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the College of Southern Nevada have resource centers to help veterans interested in higher education.
Every class at Bracken Elementary School does 10 minutes of exercise before lunch. It is one of the changes implemented this school year that helped the school earn national recognition from the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.
Every fourth Tuesday of the month, kids and parents pack the cafeteria at Craig Elementary School for story time. That’s when Spread the World Nevada’s Breakfast with Books program visits the school.
To help the Clark County School District weather a revenue drought, school police on Sunday ratified a contract that includes salary freezes, a concession already granted by administrators and support staff.
James Guthrie’s mind is full of numbers and statistics, as one would expect after a 52-year career that includes public education consulting for the governments of Armenia, Australia and Hong Kong while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, and Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University.
A small group of college students dressed down Friday, jeans and T-shirts, tennis shoes, baseball caps. They didn’t bring their books, didn’t even go to their classroom.
A vast majority of parents support having their children’s school managed by EdisonLearning Inc. over the Clark County School District, according to a report to the School Board on Thursday.
Here’s a head scratcher. Helen Chandler pays $375 a month in tuition for her son to attend kindergarten at an ordinary public school, Allen Elementary School in the northwest valley. She drives 20 minutes one way just to get him there. The bus isn’t an option because the family lives outside the school’s zone.
There’s a young woman over here chopping chives, a guy behind her making salad, a guy next to him getting started on the white chocolate mousse, another woman preparing the asparagus that will go with the chicken.
