It’s going to cost a buck more to attend events at the Thomas & Mack Center. The $1 facility fee will support the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ ongoing improvements to the aging home to the Runnin’ Rebels. The fee will be added to all tickets for all Thomas & Mack events starting in July.
The Board of Regents voted unanimously on Thursday to name the building after Paul Meacham, the college’s longest president and the first black president of a college in Nevada.
Leaders of the state’s two largest charter school sponsors met for the first time Wednesday to plan for the coming legislative session that many expect will focus on expanding school choice.
Clark County School District moved Wednesday to dismiss Michael P. Curley, the Valley High School janitor who the Review-Journal found had pleaded guilty in June to two counts of gross misdemeanor conspiracy to commit stalking.
UNLV is only a couple of U.S. congressional votes away from expanding its acreage six times over. But Nevada’s largest university is still a whole state legislative session away from obtaining the seed money to develop the land.
A North Las Vegas worker terrorized city employees for years even after being fired but that didn’t stop the Clark County School District from considering him a good hire.
UNLV English professor Mustapha Marrouchi was fired last month after a university review found he plagiarized the works of 18 people.
The Nevada Department of Education does not have an adequate revocation process for teachers or administrators convicted of crimes, with notification of arrests taking in some cases up to 1,200 days, an audit released Tuesday shows.
Eric Rasmussen, an English professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, has spent nearly two decades researching and cataloging all known copies of Shakespeare’s first folio of collected works. So when a small-town library in France needed an expert opinion on a very old document found in the library’s collection, it was Rasmussen who got the call.
Nevada’s underperforming public schools are about to feel the squeeze from state education officials who have long identified the chronic strugglers but have done little more than watch them.
Del Sol High School teacher Tina Miller gives students a lift other math hurdles, named October Educator of the Month.
It took a competitive selection process, hundreds of hours of rehearsal and about $700,000, but the Foothill High School band made it to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York to perform before a national audience.
While details are emerging about what kinds of federal benefits might be available to immigrants covered by President Barack Obama’s recent executive order, the rules surrounding state benefits in Nevada remain murky.
Las Vegas Downtown Achieves, a city-funded education organization aimed at helping schoolchildren in the downtown core, has hired its first executive administrator.
