A North Las Vegas worker terrorized city employees for years even after being fired but that didn’t stop the Clark County School District from considering him a good hire.
Education
Health care options are expanding in the Las Vegas Valley thanks to Touro University Nevada, which expanded its health clinic and added a new active aging center this year.
A program designed to help at-risk students stay in school and become successful after graduation has received a $1.25 million grant that will allow its expansion into more Las Vegas area schools.
Get ready, Nevadans, for the blitzkrieg about to unfold for your vote on The Education Initiative appearing as Question 3 on the November ballot.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
Some unusual – if not eyebrow-raising – solutions for elementary school crowding were suggested Thursday to the Clark County School Board, which will now consider which to pursue.
Nevada has received a one-year extension from the U.S. Department of Education for flexibility from some provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, a state education official said Thursday.
Inside the gymnasium, maroon gowns wrap the successful students. Rows of chairs cover the cold, concrete floor and an inspirational message hangs behind the stage. While the pomp and circumstance of this graduation is familiar, the setting at the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center in North Las Vegas is not.
Six years after being hired at the Adelson Educational Campus, the fourth-grade teacher’s students excel on standardized tests, she’s one of Adelson’s curriculum coordinators and she’s now being named Clark County Educator of the Month for March.
Authorities are investigating a fight at Mike O’Callaghan Middle School that sent a girl to the hospital.
When is a book more than just words on paper? When it is sitting in a Little Free Library.
Clark County Education Association President Ruben Murillo has made the teachers union’s stance clear: no “cuts in salary or benefits.” That point was hammered home when about 1,400 teachers met Aug. 20 at Alexis Park Resort to “provide guidance” to CCEA leadership in the ongoing contract negotiations with the Clark County School District.
Teachers were able to snag free school supplies, including backpacks, markers and pens, at MGM Resorts International’s second annual Educator Appreciation Day Aug. 18.
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