The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas has opened the enrollment period for six of the seven schools that it operates in the valley.
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The UNLV School of Medicine will rely on clinical partnerships with University Medical Center, Sunrise Hospital, the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas and Dignity Health Nevada to train the 60 students per year who will be starting classes beginning in 2017.
Students across the Clark County School District this week have signed pledges against bullying, created public service announcements to encourage their peers to stand up to bullies and popped balloons with intolerant words written on them to “stomp out bullying.”
A former Clark County School District official who admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the district will spend four to 10 years in prison and must pay back about $280,000.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
A town hall at the College of Southern Nevada yielded concerns Monday night from students, faculty and staff who fell on both sides of a debate over a controversial bill to allow concealed weapons on public school campuses.
Centennial High School math teacher Carminda Ranches, a stalwart figure at the northwest valley campus, was recently named Clark County’s Educator of the Month for December.
Clark County School District’s magnet program expansion will increase the number of magnet seats by about 25 percent over two years. The problem is transportation, which the district plans to greatly reduce by more than $30 million.
Eric Rasmussen, an English professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, has spent nearly two decades researching and cataloging all known copies of Shakespeare’s first folio of collected works. So when a small-town library in France needed an expert opinion on a very old document found in the library’s collection, it was Rasmussen who got the call.
Kesterson Elementary School first-grade teacher Nicole Schwedrsky is honored as September Clark County Educator of the Month for her ability to connect with students.
In a state with few higher education bragging rights, UNLV’s first-tier law school produces graduates that are in demand locally, with students doing well on the state bar exam. But the school’s success could plummet quickly if something isn’t done about the dearth in its budget.
They went to some places in the world where American soldiers are seldom seen, where Kirundi and Swahili are spoken more than English, where the way of life is much different than the UNLV campus where they walk around in camouflaged uniforms that student ROTC cadets wear to become Army officers.
The state’s Board of Regents’ health sciences committee is hashing out the details of what it will take to fund a medical school for UNLV.
Embattled Washoe County School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez is back on the job, 10 days after he was told he was being “relieved of his duties” effective immediately.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in mysterious lawsuit
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A man was shot and killed by police after pointing a rifle at officers in a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex, according to police.
This was the Henderson Police Department’s second officer-involved shooting in 2024, officers said.
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A federal website that tracks missing people has posted photos of the clothing worn by a man whose remains were found in a barrel at Lake Mead two years ago.
