Tennis great and local charter-school developer Andre Agassi and Bobby Turner, chairman and chief executive of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors in Los Angeles, will announce today that they’re launching the Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, an investment group designed to help some of the nation’s 5,400 charter schools and their 1.7 million students find permanent school buildings.
Las Vegas elementary school students put their literary knowledge to the test, participating in a quiz competition on eight books on May 20 at Fertitta Middle School.
About 80 teachers from across the Las Vegas Valley presented their findings after months of unorthodox teaching practices at the fifth annual Best Practices Action Research Data Fair at the Springs Preserve May 13.
Spread the Word Nevada recently adopted its 24th school, Cortez Elementary School, 4245 E. Tonopah Ave. Laurie Hartig, a former librarian for 13 years at McCaw Elementary School in Henderson and an elementary teacher before that, started the nonprofit book distribution program in February 2001.
Harmon Elementary School is one of the Clark County School District’s eight dual-language schools, designed to help students become bilingual and biliterate, able to speak, read and write in both English and Spanish.
