Members of the state’s legislative money committees will dip their toes in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed $7.3 billion budget proposal Tuesday.
Education
Skip school, lose your license. Since Jan. 1, that’s the consequence looming over Nevada high school students who are habitual truants.
Otis Harris, who said he can still remember walking to the Westside Grammar School with mud up to his knees whenever it rained, joined several hundred people at a groundbreaking ceremony for the historic Las Vegas school’s renovation Saturday.
Nevada education officials released a list of 78 underperforming schools Friday, a day after Gov. Brian Sandoval proposed a plan for the state to take over failing schools and operate them as charter schools.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
The Clark County School District released the first reports from an initiative announced last year to bring business leaders in to analyze the district’s budget.
“It’s a real music school,” said Teddi Tarnoff, head of Las Vegas Valley School of Rock locations. “We’re teaching them songs, and they’re learning how to play in a band, but they’re getting as close to a real rock experience as humanly possible.”
Dozens of people gathered at UNLV Monday afternoon for a candlelight memorial for the victims of the terror attacks in Paris.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee’s chief of staff recently said a big victory for the mayor would be announced soon: Attaching his city’s name to one of the College of Southern Nevada campuses. But the people who are in charge of that decision say there isn’t a plan to change the college’s name.
The Clark County School District is one step closer to updating its bullying policy, including ordering principals to inform parents within one school day that a student is either a victim of bullying or accused of bullying.
President Barack Obama wants to make two years of community college free and universally available, a proposal he said on Thursday he would flesh out in his State of the Union speech later this month.
Before graduating from Canyon Springs High School, Cristian Lopez found out he won a design competition that combined art, science, commerce and charity. The result is The Lopez, a shoe that is helping fund education for the future.
It’s train week at Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, 7038 Sky Pointe Drive.
Rather than sleep in or play games on the first day of winter break, eight children were excited to learned about rocket science with College of Southern Nevada instructor Gene Kelly.