Victor Wakefield, executive director of Teach for America in Las Vegas, was appointed Friday to the State Board of Education by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
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View rounds up education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley, including school news and scholarship information.
A Rancho High School history teacher was arrested Thursday on numerous charges, including having sex with a pupil, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and kidnapping.
Dark skies filled with rain, lighting and roars of soft thunder set the perfect stage for the emergency broadcast updates shown at the Northwest Career & Technical Academy on May 18.
Foothill High School students poured their souls into designing soles.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s many-pronged education spending and reform package approved by the just-concluded 2015 Legislature represents the most significant change to the public school system in 60 years.
Clark County leaders may soon shake the cobwebs out of University Medical Center’s abandoned Lied Building.
Valley High School seniors participated Monday in a “Grad Walk” to celebrate the achievements of the graduating seniors. The event also encourages younger students to graduate.
At The Meadows School, every building depended on the generosity of its families. The main gymnasium, the Richardson-Beckley Gymnasium, was named for Linda R. Richardson, part of one of the private school’s founding families.
Foster child Anna Goga devoted herself to school and dreamt of the day she would attend an Ivy League school. After her graduation from Sierra Vista High School, that dream will come true.
When Henderson native Charles England retired from his career as a pipefitter, per tradition, the United Association union gifted the monies charged for the advertisements in his testimonial booklet to him. England had no intention of keeping the retirement gift — instead, he started an educational scholarship with the money.
On Thursday, several transgender students and their parents addressed the Clark County School Board and repeated their long-standing requests for a policy that accommodates all students, regardless of gender identity and expression, in public facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms.
Fifteen Chinese nationals have been charged with developing a fraud scheme in which they paid impostors to take entrance exams, including the SAT, and gained acceptance to elite American colleges and universities, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Reputations can be hard to mend, and the reputations that follow at-risk schools are hard to leave behind, which is what prompted the creation of a program that helps schools turn around.