Call them either Bycraft’s Five or a reincarnation of the Hole in the Wall gang, but a team of four juniors and one senior from Green Valley High School are ready to crack some safes. Science teacher Mike Bycraft and members of the Henderson school’s engineering club are headed to Israel in March to compete in an international safe-cracking competition. Three other Clark County schools are also participating.
Education
Clark County School Board members voted on Thursday to make minor zoning changes that will affect several schools throughout the valley next year.
Deacon, founder of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas environmental studies program, specialized in study of Devil’s Hole pupfish and other Nevada endangered species.
Students at Bryan Elementary School, 8050 Cielo Vista Ave., participated in Jump Rope For Heart Jan. 30 to benefit the American Heart Association. Bryan physical education teacher Pius Lynch has taken part in the effort for 35 straight years.
A controversial bill that would extend a bond rollover program to address pressing school construction needs in Clark County ran into tough questioning Thursday in an Assembly committee.
Some 20 upper school students who run the TMS MicroBank at The Meadows School have given out 536 loans worth more than $104,000 to small-business owners, farmers and others trying to build a career and life for their families in countries from South America to Southeast Asia.
University officials made their pitch to the Legislature Tuesday to increase initial funding for a UNLV medical school beyond the $9.3 million that was included in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget so it can begin operating in 2017.
The sponsor of a bill heard in the Assembly Education Committee Monday said he wants to protect students like 2008 Henderson valedictorian Brittany McComb, whose commencement speech was cut off when she spoke about her Christian faith.
Southern Nevadans now have a way to monitor pollen counts thanks to a revived joint program involving the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Clark County Department of Air Quality and the Clark County School District.
It’s beginning to look like an all-out offensive by the Teamsters against the two largest education unions in Clark County.
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Officials at Coral Academy of Science, a charter school with three campuses, want to open its fourth in a long-vacant Henderson shopping center, but more than 600 residents of Sun City MacDonald Ranch have signed a petition to oppose it.
A centerpiece of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to give parents more choice in where their children attend school generated emotional testimony at an Assembly Education Committee hearing Wednesday.
The multimillionaires and billionaires on CNBC’s “Shark Tank” may want to take note of students at The Alexander Dawson School. The private school’s middle school, 10845 W. Desert Inn Road, hosted its own version of the show Jan. 19, featuring projects from more than 12 sixth-graders.
John White, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ executive vice president and provost, will step down from his position at the end of the academic year, the university announced Tuesday.