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UNLV program fast tracks teachers to Las Vegas schools

For the past month, Barnard and 13 other UNLV students fulfilled the practicum portion of the the state’s Alternate Route to Licensure program.

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2 students at different Clark County schools arrested for guns

The students — a male and a female, both 17 — were taken into custody at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas and Desert Rose High School in North Las Vegas. Police say neither of the students had made threats.

Student runs show for Las Vegas high school’s advisory group

Omega Gdeye, a 16-year-old junior and Ethiopian immigrant, is believed to be the only student who chairs the school organizational team mandated by the state reorganization of the Clark County School District.

Clark County school organizational teams absorb the deficit news

In the first full year of the district’s new school-empowerment model, parents, support staff and teachers are seeing how the budget process unfolds, and what happens when there’s not enough money.

Most CCSD trustees open to contract changes to address sexual misconduct

Four members of seven-member Clark County School Board indicate they would consider trying to renegotiate a clause in the union contract that allows teachers with a history of bad behavior to move from one school to another.

CCSD sub arrested on charge of attempted sexual misconduct with student

Garic Wharton II, 25, a substitute teacher at South Academic Center, was jailed Thursday after allegedly engaging in a sexually explicit conversation to solicit sex with a 16-year-old female student over social media, school district says.