Nevada’s plan to become the “fastest-improving state in the nation” for education has gone to the federal Department of Education for final approval.
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Clark County School District and law enforcement officials say they are listening to parent concerns about inappropriate teacher-student relations and issued a warning to staff members who engage in inappropriate behavior.
Tennessee enacted the Promise Program in 2014, providing two years of tuition-free attendance at a community or technical college to residents. It’s now reached Nevada, in the form of legislation proposed by state Sen. Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, that’s patterned after Tennessee’s program.
It’s a litmus test for Nevada Democrats and membership in the state’s education establishment: The belief that increased education funding leads to improved student achievement.
UNLV President Len Jessup says university officials should think twice before hosting another presidential debate now that they know the pricetag for providing the venue for the Oct. 19 faceoff between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Lyon County schools will soon be equipped with cameras in every classroom.
Twenty inmates filed into a cell at the Clark County Detention Center for their own college orientation last week.
A slow but steady journey with occasional spurts of impressive growth — that’s how Las Vegas Deputy City Manager Scott Adams sees the future of the Las Vegas Medical District now that the UNLV School of Medicine is becoming a reality.
The College of Southern Nevada has lost a $1.7 million federal grant aimed to boost services for military veterans and will return $84,000 it had already received since October 2014 from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The College of Southern Nevada’s veterinary technology program used funding from a Federal Perkins Grant to purchase a state-of-the art Vimago veterinary CT scan machine. CSN faculty and students recently used the robotic, high-definition, computed tomography system, one of only two Vimago systems in Nevada, to examine a tumor in the ear of a longhair Himalayan feline.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck said he hopes to see hearings and possibly action before year’s end on a bill that would change career and technical education funding.
For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada.
Construction will begin soon for a dormitory-style housing project near UNLV’s north side, driving the school’s yearslong push to lure more students to live near campus.
A state judge Thursday reduced by more than two-thirds the amount of a bond sought by the state treasurer and attorney general’s office from a group of parents challenging Nevada’s education savings account.
A substitute teacher was arrested on Wednesday on a charge of sexual misconduct with a student according to Ken Young of the Clark County School District police.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval’s many-pronged education spending and reform package approved by the just-concluded 2015 Legislature represents the most significant change to the public school system in 60 years.