This school year begins with a new superintendent and initiatives aimed at improving student achievement and finding better ways to measure it by adopting Common Core State Standards curriculum. Students also will see changes due to $150 million in education budget cuts, including the elimination of the assistant principal position at Eisenberg Elementary School.
This school year will open with more changes than any other in recent memory, and it has principals excited. There’s a new superintendent, a new measuring stick for student performance and new curriculum. Despite $150 million in budget cuts for education, Southeast Career and Technical Academy will proceed with a $32 million renovation that is being financed as part of a 1998 capital improvement bond.
More than 500 Clark County School District teachers face being laid off next month if the district and teachers union don’t reach a new contract agreement very soon. Among the concessions the district has asked the teachers union to agree to is a new contract that would eliminate pay raises this year and save the district about $56 million.
After a contentious summer and 22 versions of electoral maps, the Clark County School Board and minority group representatives came to a consensus on the dividing lines Monday.
As college tuition rises, scholarships are becoming more important than ever. And there are plenty to choose from.
Jennifer Hill wasn’t like the 266 other teachers who gathered for induction into the Clark County School District this week.
For the first time, Hispanics edged by Caucasians to become Nevada’s largest student group last year.
The Southern Nevada Health District is offering low-cost vaccinations for local students to safeguard from mumps, hepatitis A and B, chicken pox, whooping cough and more.
Sebring Frehner spent some time studying at UNLV and the community college and didn’t find what he was looking for. He never felt connected to either place.
“The school is just a building,” says Principal Ron Montoya while clearing out his Valley High School office on Wednesday.
The Clark County School District’s graduation rate ranges from 46 percent to 65 percent, depending on the calculation system being used.
