Nevada’s school districts will refund unused grant money to the state to limit the impact of budget reductions ordered by Gov. Steve Sisolak amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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The move came after the Review-Journal reported that the district was unable to contact about 21 percent of students in the first week of classes after the schools shut down.
Furloughs, elimination of teaching positions, new student fees all envisioned as Nevada System of Higher Education sketches out potential cuts over next two years.
More than 67,000 Clark County School District students were unreachable during the first week of school closures, according to data provided Wednesday by the district.
Nevada’s public universities and colleges are easing grading and financial requirements because of systemwide school closures over COVID-19.
A plan for distance learning in the Clark County School District has been approved by Nevada’s state superintendent of public instruction.
Parents will be asked to provide either the student’s ID card, or the student’s name, identification number, school site and grade level, the district said Thursday.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Sunday ordered the closure of all Nevada K-12 schools to slow the spread of COVID-19, beginning Monday. He said free meal programs would resume soon.
The situation is evolving hourly, but there are no confirmed cases nor presumptive positives of COVID-19 at CCSD schools and no current plans to close any schools.
Clark County schools is immediately suspending all athletic events, assemblies and extra-curricular events until further notice over coronavirus fears, the district said Thursday.
Four teachers and one administrator who traveled to Seattle last week will not return to their school for two weeks as a precaution related to coronavirus, the district said.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
