Graduating, always a long shot for Chaparral High School senior James “Bubba” Dukes, becomes even more unlikely after he gets into a fight. The football player hoping for an athletic scholarship is still short a year’s worth of credits.
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She never told her family that her then-stepfather had raped her when she was 8, then revealed the allegation in a college application essay. Telling her painful story to a jury finally put it to rest, she wrote in a statement read Monday as her ex-stepfather was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Many hands offer help to Chaparral High School senior James “Bubba” Dukes, a teen father who faces crisis after crisis as he reaches for a diploma. The school provides free diapers, baby formula, food, clothes and supplies through services unrivaled by the district’s 48 other high schools.
James “Bubba” Dukes’ need is great as he struggles to earn a diploma at Chaparral High School. The obstacles faced by the football player and teen father aren’t just academic — his push to graduation is impeded by family and financial woes that have him trying to keep his family intact and off the streets.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
Nevada has received a one-year extension from the U.S. Department of Education for flexibility from some provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, a state education official said Thursday.
The Washoe County School District police chief said he was taken off guard and hurt when he was let go last week.
CARSON CITY – A panel of lawmakers and educators on Monday recommended that Nevada’s public education funding formula include more money for students in poverty or with limited English proficiency.
Beating the odds: Teen born with weak heart outlives doctors’ prediction, graduates from high school
For most women, awaiting the birth of a child is a wondrous time, full of excitement and joy. For Tracey Moran, pregnant with her son, Zachary MacKenzie, it was a time consumed by fervent prayer.
Latinos in Nevada often fare worse than Latinos in other Intermountain West Region states, according to a study being released Monday.
Scoopo is valedictorian of the class of 2014 despite not being able to walk, write with his hands or talk. Before Nov. 8, 2000, Michael “Mikey” Scoopo was what you’d call a regular 5-year-old. Everything changed in a mouthful. It is unclear which morsel of food was tainted with E. coli bacteria, but whatever it was almost killed him.
To some, Suzuki means a car; to others, it’s an electric keyboard. To Cynthia Man, a resident of northwest Las Vegas, it means hearing music played by young musicians. Man is the artistic director of the Desert Suzuki Institute, which instructs young students in violin, piano and flute.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, student leaders on Friday sent a letter to Hillary Clinton’s family foundation asking that she “do what is right” and donate all or part of her $225,000 speaking fee for addressing the UNLV Foundation back to the university for student benefit.
Nearly one-third of the state’s kindergarteners are overweight or obese, which could lead to more physical and academic obstacles in their future, according to researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
