People ask what makes a worthy column for me. Often, it’s when I mutter, “Huh? I didn’t know that.”
Education
Despite attempts to block it in the Nevada Supreme Court, a decade-long fight to unseat the labor union representing all support staff for the Clark County School District will move forward in the coming months.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy visited the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday on the first stop of his national campaign to promote walking and walkable communities.
Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a lease deal on Tuesday that will expand the leased space set aside for the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
Parents will have to wait at least another year before the Nevada Department of Education releases updated school ratings after the state transitioned to new student testing system last year.
For some families with nonverbal autistic children, the best way to ensure their protection in the classroom is to install video cameras that monitor their interaction with adults.
Applying for financial aid can be a pain. But the federal government will start allowing students to file their applications three months earlier, aiming to make the messy process a little easier to handle.
When John Haynal took the reins of Roundy Elementary School three years ago, state education officials had just identified the central valley campus as one of 39 schools with the greatest need of academic intervention.
Nevada education officials have approved a plan to develop an outdated apartment complex near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, advancing efforts to house as many as 740 additional students near the campus by 2017.
Some teachers use their summer break to go on vacation. Teresa Beaver, a science teacher at Lawrence Junior High School, used hers to go to space camp.
When about 18,000 Clark County teachers collect their first paycheck of the new school year Thursday, many may be shocked they’re banking less than they did last year.
The Clark County School District wants the public to think like a trustee as it drafts a priority list of how to spend $4.1 billion over the next decade on new schools or replacements and renovations for aging facilities.
A group of five parents have filed the second lawsuit against the state that challenges Nevada’s new private school choice program, which many consider to be the most aggressive in the country.
The business school of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas this year boasts a higher ranking among the nation’s top undergraduate business programs, according to 2016 college ratings released today by U.S. News & World Report.