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Former Clark County schools official Priscilla Rocha and four co-defendants facing theft charges for taking $289,000 in public funds from the School District remain free despite a prosecutor’s assertion Monday that they are a “flight risk.”
A former Clark County School District official was among five people indicted by a grand jury Friday in the theft of $289,000 in public funds from the district’s Adult English Language Services Acquisition program.
Graduating, always a long shot for Chaparral High School senior James “Bubba” Dukes, becomes even more unlikely after he gets into a fight. The football player hoping for an athletic scholarship is still short a year’s worth of credits.
Twelve schools nationwide have been named Grammy Signature Schools for 2014. The program gives money to public high school music programs based on excellence, financial need or both. Las Vegas Academy was one of two gold-level schools to receive $5,000.
Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools. Progress toward integrated classrooms has largely been rolled back since the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago, according to a new report.
Two 10-year-olds from Colorado were caught selling and trading their grandparents’ legally-purchased marijuana at school, making a profit of $11.
Some student loan borrowers who had a parent or grandparent co-sign the note are finding that they must immediately pay the loan in full if the relative dies, or in some cases when bankruptcy is filed.
Calculate the foreign exchange rate a vacationing American would pay in India. Estimate from a random sample the number of 18- to 34-year-olds who voted for a candidate. These are sample questions from the newly redesigned SAT, which aims for more real-world applications and analysis from students.
UNLVino founders Jerry Vallen and Larry Ruvo will be honored for 40 years of success Saturday night at the event’s Grand Tasting.
Authorities are investigating a fight at Mike O’Callaghan Middle School that sent a girl to the hospital.
Tangled in a criminal investigation for potential misuse of taxpayer funds, the Clark County School District’s Adult English Language Acquisition department has been shut down, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said in a news conference Monday.
The perfect score will again be 1,600. What’s more, the essay will be optional, students will no longer be penalized for wrong answers and the vocabulary is shifting to do away with some high-sounding words such as “prevaricator” and “sagacious.”
Departing UNLV President Neal Smatresk will earn $505,000 in base salary as the new leader of the University of North Texas. His annual base salary at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was $246,426, with a total compensation package of $447,424.
Officials at South Carolina State University say a student who was shot outside an on-campus dormitory has died.
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