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After donating $10 million in December to UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, philanthropist Beverly Rogers on Thursday evening announced an additional $20 million gift from the Rogers Foundation to the literary center.
Why go into heavy debt and disrupt your life for a certification of business training that you can get essentially for free?
This fall, students in Clark County will have a chance to get hands-on experience in the classroom while preparing for a medical or agricultural career through a new program.
From dancing to singing, Las Vegas resident John Rothman’s creative wheel is always turning.
The longtime union representing more than 11,000 Clark County School District bus drivers, janitors, cooks and other support staff is in disarray after being challenged by another union, sources familiar with the situation told the Review-Journal.
Students at The Meadows School are learning to manage their money firsthand through The Meadows School MicroBank, one of the first such high school entities in the U.S. Its intent is to help entrepreneurs in developing countries get ahead by providing small loans through the nonprofit crowdfunding site kiva.org.
Clark County charter schools, where enrollment is 66 percent white, are on the path to resegregation, public school superintendent Pat Skorkowsky told business leaders Tuesday.
The founder of a Reno school aimed at educating the most gifted middle- and high school students was appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents Tuesday.
Jack Lund Schofield, a former Nevada legislator and member of the state Board of Regents, died Friday, according to local officials.
Southern Nevada is in relatively rarified air with two medical schools being created in such close proximity. Officials at Roseman University of Health Sciences and UNLV are part of a new era of medical school expansion in the United States, a growth spurt not seen since the late 1960s and ’70s.
For the first time in years, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will stage a fund-raising campaign for building needs.
After putting school on hold for more than a decade, two Las Vegas residents are returning to a virtual classroom in hopes of enhancing their marketability in the workforce.