Education
Pushing a scooter, pedaling a bike and walking helps children get their recommended 60 minutes of physical activity, educators said. For Nevada Moves Day on Wednesday, Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen and Clark County School Board Trustee Deanna Wright accompanied school children on a one-mile hike to the school from the Multi-generational Center near Green Valley and Paseo Verde parkways.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana will create the nation’s broadest private school voucher system and enact other sweeping education reforms.
With an expected funding shortfall of more than $400 million next year, Clark County School District trustees and administrators have turned to books to balance their books.
Explore Knowledge Academy students sent a weather balloon nearly 100,000 feet into the stratosphere for an AP Physics class project. A camera attached to it captured images of the Las Vegas Valley, Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon before crashing on an Arizona Indian reservation.
By many standards, the students in a government honors class at Green Valley High School are a politically conservative lot. Maybe it comes from the demographics of the Henderson-area school. Or, possibly, it’s a sign of changing times and attitudes.
The number of students sitting in front of teachers at all grade levels is likely to increase next year, as Clark County School District officials wrestle with how to improve student performance during a severe fiscal crisis.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed budget promises major funding cuts for public schools and higher education. During the next three weeks, the Review-Journal will examine those cuts.
Nevada may rank near the bottom in K-12 spending per pupil, but it is among only a handful of states that has not faced a lawsuit challenging its education finance system.