CARSON CITY — The state’s colleges and universities will eliminate programs, lay off hundreds of employees and leave thousands of students with nowhere else to go if the governor’s budget goes through, the institutions’ presidents said Friday.
Education
The higher education system’s governing Board of Regents is expected to hear a proposal Friday that would eliminate Nevada State College, Desert Research Institute and two northern Nevada community colleges as one way of dealing with potential budget cuts.
Hundreds of Chaparral High School students marched more than a mile Thursday, from their campus to a Clark County School Board meeting, to protest a school staffing shake-up.
An education reform bill would allow bad teachers to remain too long in classrooms before being fired, Assemblyman Ira Hansen told other members of the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday. Hansen objected to provisions in an education reform plan that would set up a system of merit pay and create policies to dismiss poor employees.
Two major bond rating agencies have downgraded the financially stressed Clark County School District as it prepares for Thursday’ s refinancing sale of $110 million in school construction bonds.
Las Vegas police have identified the four SWAT officers who exchanged gunfire and killed a suspected burglar near Grand Canyon and Grand Teton drives in the northwest valley shortly after midnight Thursday.
Dakota Jones, 14, an eighth grader at Hyde Park Middle School, won the Nevada State Spelling Bee Saturday for the second year in a row with the spelling of “hubristic.”
