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Exams, vaccines get Las Vegas kids ready for school

Given that scientists say one of the greatest public health victories of the last century was the discovery of safe and effective vaccines, it comes as little surprise to most parents in Nevada that children must have the appropriate vaccinations to attend school.

Namesake’s passion for helping special-needs children lives on

Helen Jydstrup, an educator of physically handicapped children and those with special needs in Las Vegas for 23 years, is said to have been a teacher’s teacher, one who served as a model for others. “She was the consummate teacher,” said Helen Jydstrup Elementary School’s principal David Frydman.

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Charter school for deaf signs off in bankruptcy

Caroline Bass sinks behind a mountain of markers and student artwork and watches as her charter school is dis­assembled Thursday.

Superintendent says cuts, poverty, high enrollment force changes

Clark County schools are caught in a “perfect storm” of budget cuts, childhood poverty and a huge enrollment, Superintendent Dwight Jones said Thursday in his annual State of the District address at Chaparral High School.

Principals in Clark County School District ponder cuts

Whom to cut? What to cut? The questions torment Principal Jeff Horn. Seven full-time teachers may have to go. But each has six classes, and each class has about 35 students. So many students. Such an impact.

T-shirt tower display to honor 9/11 victims at UNLV

Troy Gillett, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas, alumnus, has created two winding columns of about 5,000 T-shirts for display at Lied Library as part of UNLV’s events commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The T-shirts were given to UNLV by New York-New York, which collected them from a shrine that was created outside the hotel following the terrorist attacks.

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