Silverado High School will host the Empty Bowl Project Wednesday evening, serving soup and bread in student-made bowls to raise money to feed the hungry.
Education
Clark County School Board members are backing away from their rebuke of a state investigation that alleged test cheating at Kelly Elementary School.
John Bowers’ teaching honors include UNLV’s Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship and he has written scholarly works about literary classics and canonical authors. Almost through serendipity the English professor reached out to a much wider audience through The Great Courses.
Seventeen dollars doesn’t sound like a lot until it adds up to a $5.4 million loss. To the Clark County School Board, it was cause for outrage Friday after hearing that the state will provide $17 less per student in funding than pledged this school year.
Following a week of interviews, campus tours, meetings and forums, all three finalists for UNLV president on Monday will have an opportunity to address the Nevada System of Higher Education presidential search committee at a public meeting at the Marietta Tiberti Grand Hall in the Richard Tam Alumni Center.
The 2014-15 contract for Clark County’s public school administrators will cost $5.29 million more than the previous year due largely to a 2.79 percent across-the-board pay increase for 1,300 staff.
In a study of three rural Virginia elementary schools, both packed and school lunches almost entirely met nutrition standards, but those packed at home tended to have more calories, fat and saturated fat.
After seven months of silence over a black mark against Kelly Elementary School, the Clark County School Board on Thursday spoke out on state test cheating allegations involving the campus made by the state superintendent of public schools.
It took a 13-year-old student’s suicide and almost a year, but Clark County School District officials presented new anti-bullying policies Thursday to fall in line with state laws requiring that principals immediately investigate bullying reports and notify parents.
About $18 million in new school buses will soon be bought for Clark County School District students, replacing 50 vehicles beyond repair and adding 75 more to the 1,691-bus fleet next school year.
UNLV provost and presidential finalist John White was about halfway through answering questions during a public forum Thursday when economics professor Bill Robinson stood and asked how White would be different as president than he has been as provost.
Former Henderson educator and principal Frank Lamping died Nov. 11.
In today’s high-tech world, people are required to adapt to new technology faster than before to enhance task performance in their daily lives. But diving into computers isn’t always easy. In order to provide extra assistance, SeniorNet learning classes were formed to offer courses to adults 50 or older.
Maryland’s biggest school district has stripped references to religious holidays from next year’s calendar, removing Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah from the lineup of days off.