Education
The Ray of Hope Foundation, a nonprofit group providing support to Manch, Parson, Lowman, Bunker and Clyde C. Cox elementary schools, is accepting holiday donations through Dec. 12.
On Saturday, Andre Agassi paid tribute to Kirk Kerkorian at the Grand Slam for Childrenbenefit, this time for contributing to Agassi’s second family of sorts. Kerkorian gave $18 million to support the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy for at-risk students.
Western High School’s football program set a record this season, but not the kind players wanted. It’s the first sports program in the Clark County School District to cut its season short and forfeit remaining games for all teams, freshmen to varsity, according to district officials.
NV Energy handed a $6.25 million check to Clark County School District on Thursday, making it the largest one-time rebate that the electricity provider has ever given.
Principal and faculty at Herron Elementary School described it as a prison. “The building is very institutional,” said librarian Karen Egger, who transferred to the North Las Vegas school in January. “With the fence, it looks like a prison.”
The Board of Regents unanimously approved Bart Patterson as the interim president of Nevada State College on Friday. He will begin Nov. 1.
Bart Patterson, the higher education system’s vice chancellor of administrative and legal affairs, should be the interim president of Nevada State College, the chancellor said Thursday.
Between homework, exams and extracurricular activities, students at 14 local high schools are finding time to run their own foundations. They will spend the school year creating a mission statement, researching nonprofit organizations, reviewing grant applications and funding grants that will help the community as part of the Public Education Foundation’s We R Community program.