The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would start a teacher scholarship program and pay incentives to Nevada educators in hard-to-fill jobs.
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Scrambling to stem “immediate cash flow issues,” the union-created health trust that covers Clark County’s 18,000 public school teachers and their dependents soon will require its members to shoulder more of the costs for doctor office visits.
A transgender student in the Clark County School District issues a plea to school board members to enact a policy that offers guaranteed protection and equal treatment for transitioning students in the fifth-largest system in the nation.
With college affordability becoming an even larger factor for students seeking degrees than ever before, here is a list of the 10 least expensive universities and colleges across the nation.
Li’ Shey Johnson is a woman on a mission. She’s out to see that those wanting careers in the hospitality, tourism and hotel industry get the head start they need to compete for those jobs.
Somerset Academy apologized Friday to a 12-year-old student who had been denied the use of a Bible verse in a school project in February. Sixth-grader Mackenzie Fraiser had originally been told by a teacher at the North Las Vegas public charter school that she couldn’t use the John 3:16 verse in a PowerPoint presentation
Gov. Brian Sandoval and legislative leaders introduced a new $15 million initiative late Friday designed to ease Nevada’s teacher shortage.The two-pronged program sets aside $5 million for the Teach Nevada Scholarship Fund and provides new teacher bonuses.
The future of this year’s graduating class will be shaped by a past unique from that of any of their predecessors’ — the U.S. has been at war for the majority of their lives.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
Students For Life America and law firm the Thomas More Society sent a letter to the high school principal and the Clark County School District “demanding” that they approve the chapter that Angelique Clark tried to found in December.
A now former special education teacher at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy has been charged with sexually abusing and assaulting a child.
Barrick Gold Corporation will partner with the Clark County School District to develop new technology and curriculum at 26 middle school campuses. The mining company announced the partnership Thursday, with an initial grant of $20,060 directed toward training students in new standards in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
A star student from Tennessee, turned down all eight prestigious Ivy League schools and instead iss headed to the academically humble-if-football-proud, University of Alabama instead simply to avoid the debt.
A North Las Vegas family demands an apology from Somerset Academy after their daughter’s teacher told her to remove a Bible verse from a school assignment.
The Clark County School District will increase class sizes in grades four and above as it attempts to alleviate an estimated $52 million shortfall in a $2.3 billion budget for the 2015-16 school year that trustees approved Wednesday.