Several hundred charter, online, private and home-schooled students, parents and administrators converged on the Capitol grounds Wednesday to promote school choice in Nevada.
Education
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky began his state of the district address on Monday by praising specialty magnet programs, but warned that enrollment is rapidly growing in the crowded school system.
Touro University Nevada announced it has hired former UNLV administrator Raymond W. Alden, III to be provost of its Henderson campus.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
The Clark County School District’s graduation rates for the second year continue to hover around 71 percent, with 16,604 students receiving diplomas in 2014. However, the 70.9 percent graduation rate was lower than the 2013 high of 71.5 percent, when 16,194 students graduated.
Clark County School District officials continue to flesh out the details of their evolving transportation plans for students attending next year’s expanded magnet programs.
Clark County School District board members learned the results of a sex education survey conducted over the past few months at a Thursday meeting.
It may have started as a male-dominated profession, but after more than 30 years in the trade, Jamie Ann Yocono has proved that women can thrive in the woodworking industry. Besides making a profit from her work, she has inspired a generation of women and men to pursue creative projects through the classes she teaches at her business, Wood It Is!, 2267 W. Gowan Road, No. 106.
During their years of teaching math classes part-time at UNLV, student Chris Southworth and graduate Jessica Robinson have seen many freshman students struggle with basic equations. Math classes become so problematic that they’ve witnessed students resort to switching majors, completely altering their career paths and their lives.
Two dozen third graders from Reynaldo Martinez Elementary School were given a full scholarship to the college or higher education institute of their choosing by The Rogers Foundation, a non-profit organization formed by Beverly Rogers in honor of her late husband Jim Rogers.
They say comedy is a funny way of being serious, but whether it’s booking, performing or teaching, Henderson resident Philip Peredo is serious about comedy.
Faith Lutheran High School’s Conservatory of the Fine Arts plans to open its previously senior-only classes to all Las Vegas Valley high school students beginning next school year.
Gather around, kids. Look away from your smartphones for a moment. I have something important to tell you. It’s about smoking. Specifically, cigarette smoking. You need you to start.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky on Tuesday praised Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposals for boosting school spending by $782 million, choice with charter and zoom schools, English language programs and reforms to modernize the classroom and the Nevada system for distributing funds statewide.
A new initiative proposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to have the state take over under-performing schools will likely involve only a handful of the troubled institutions initially, a state official said Tuesday.