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Former Green Valley High School banker resigns from CCSD amid investigation

Green Valley High School’s former banker resigned from the Clark County School District Tuesday amid an investigation that tens of thousands of dollars are missing from the school’s coffers. The district confirmed late Tuesday that Melissa Traylor had resigned a month after she was removed from her job at the high school.

 
Obama announces changes for student loan repayment

President Barack Obama told students at Georgia Tech on Tuesday he wants to make the process of repaying student loans easier to understand and manage.

Vegas mom blames bullying, school district for daughter’s suicide

Natika Bird says bullying killed her teenage daughter. Carla Jamerson, who was 14, will never get her driver’s license, graduate from high school or fulfill her dream of becoming a scientist.

Assembly to consider private school scholarship program

A scholarship program sought by Gov. Brian Sandoval that would help low-income students attend private schools, including religious schools, won approval on a party-line 8-6 vote in the Assembly Education Committee on Monday.

Abuse investigation was ongoing when Las Vegas teen took her life

A physical abuse investigation was underway in February at the home of a 14-year-old Las Vegas girl whose mother blamed bullying for her suicide, according to a child fatality disclosure report.

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Tonopah principal accused of inappropriately touching students

A principal with the Nye County School District was arrested after a student said he touched her breast. Deputies with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office investigated Tonopah High School Principal Alvin L. Eiseman, 57. Two girls said the principal touched them inappropriately, according to police.

$70,000 stolen from Green Valley High School student funds

Tens of thousands of dollars are missing from Green Valley High School coffers and the school’s banker is no longer assigned to a job within the Clark County School District.

11 more Clark County schools will become year-round

Eleven Clark County School District elementary schools will go year-round to relieve crowding beginning in 2015-16, a change that comes shortly after state lawmakers approved legislation allowing the district to roll over a construction bond and build 12 new schools.

UNLV anthropologist helped unearth jaw of earliest human

Someone’s going to have to update Wikipedia. A group of scientists, including UNLV anthropologist Brian Villmoare, have discovered in Ethiopia the oldest fossilized remains of the Homo genus — think a really, really long-departed cousin.

First-graders raise trout in crowdfunded classroom experiment

From a pond habitat collage on a bulletin board to drawings of trout in the hallways, there’s something fishy happening at Pinecrest Academy, 1360 S. Boulder Highway. First-grade teacher Ashlee Mickelberry used the crowdfunding website donorschoose.org to help purchase supplies to raise the trout in her classroom last summer. She received the eggs from a Montana hatchery Feb. 10.

First-graders raise trout in crowdfunded classroom experiment

From a pond habitat collage on a bulletin board to drawings of trout in the hallways, there’s something fishy happening at Pinecrest Academy, 1360 S. Boulder Highway.

 
NYC public schools will now observe 2 Muslim holidays

New York City public schools will now observe two Muslim holidays, officials announced Wednesday, making the district — the nation’s biggest — one of the few to put Islamic holy days on its calendar.

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