A group of Spring Valley High School students recently met with others from around the globe in Paris to find solutions to world problems. These diplomats formed committees, debated, deliberated and passed resolutions.
Their efforts did not change global policy, but they learned a lot about it. Model United Nations is, after all, pretend.
About 25 graduate students in the public history program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, spent much of the past semester at the Walking Box Ranch in Searchlight, cataloguing and cleaning thousands of artifacts that once belonged to former Nevada Lt. Gov. and actor Rex Bell and his wife, actress Clara Bow.
Students from The Meadows School hosted their fourth annual holiday event for another school Dec. 16, this year bringing presents for students at West Preparatory Academy in downtown Las Vegas.
Nok Hun Kim is an anomaly. Unlike many in his elite group of peers who scored in the top 1 percent nationally on their PSATs, he doesn’t have his sights set on reaching a lofty ledge. Doctor, engineer, neurologist, astrophysicist or mathematician.He doesn’t know. He’s drifting.
Kristen Hsu
Green Valley High School
Genevieve Taylor
Green Valley High School
DIANA IVEY
GREEN VALLEY HIGH School
Tackling the area’s toughest issues has long been the responsibility of the Las Vegas City Council. Now, kids are going to have a turn at it. The inaugural Ward 6 Youth Council, including students from Northwest Career and Technical Academy, Peterson Behavior Jr/Sr High School and Arbor View, Centennial and Shadow Ridge high schools, is scheduled to meet in January.
Students in the Clark County School District come into the lunchroom every day expecting a tasty meal, but few of them know the lengths that food service staff go through to feed all 309,000 of them. The staff at Kelly Elementary School near downtown Las Vegas, stands above the rest, having just received the district’s first Food Service Five Star Award for excellence in the areas of health, safety and attitude.
Any outcome in the pending arbitration between the Clark County School District and the Clark County Education Association could be devastating. If the district wins, teachers will have to pay back thousands in raises. If the teachers win, they keep the money, but the district warns that about 1,000 of them will need to be laid off.
The 58-year-old school floods when it rains, water gushing through storm drains.
