Jake Pereira, UNR’s student body president, will keep his position after the Associated Students of the University of Nevada Senate voted Wednesday not to impeach him.
Education
A program boasting one of the highest graduation rates among high school students likely to drop out will continue and grow in the Clark County School District next year, due to a unanimous approval from the School Board on Thursday. Jobs for America’s Graduates helps struggling students catch up through tutoring and other efforts. It grew to nine schools this year and next year will be in 10 high schools.
Settlements paid out by the Clark County School District will have to reach new heights before being brought to the School Board in public meetings, according to a policy change approved on Thursday in reaction to a change in state law. Whereas the district’s previous policy only brought settlements, awards and payments for workers’ compensations claims to the School Board for $75,000 or more, that threshold is now $100,000.
An assistant football coach at Hug High School in Northern Nevada is accused of providing alcohol and marijuana to two female students at his home.
The proposed 2 percent business tax has gone from a reasonable plan to help fund public schools to one lonesome and unloved idea.
Basic High School English teacher Stephanie Berry was recently chosen to be a part of the PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators program.
Clark County Schools and the state have sufficient requirements in place to investigate, report and discipline bullies, but school workers need to better follow them, a special school district task force on bullying said Wednesday.
There’s still plenty of pomp and circumstance, inspiring words from lofty speakers and tossing tassels, but graduating from college today is very different from a generation or so ago.
The College of Southern Nevada’s Faculty Senate has unanimously passed a resolution requesting that community colleges remain within the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Four Nevada students are among the 2014 winners of scholarships from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which annually awards scholarships to 1,000 minority students below an income limit. The scholarships also will pay for graduate school in computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science.
Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite, according to new studies that cite a “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Jordan Coppert may be only a junior at Faith Lutheran High School, but he’s already impacting the lives of others. A member of the school’s football team, Coppert said he wanted students on financial aid to experience school sports. Inspired by a student he met from India, he decided to supply athletic equipment to those in need at Faith, 2015 S. Hualapai Way.
Six years after being hired at the Adelson Educational Campus, the fourth-grade teacher’s students excel on standardized tests, she’s one of Adelson’s curriculum coordinators and she’s now being named Clark County Educator of the Month for March.
Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don’t snap that selfie. Graduates at the University of South Florida and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., have been asked to refrain from taking self-portraits with their cell phones as they collect their diplomas.
Two Las Vegas Valley schools were locked down after the Nevada Highway Patrol reported a suspicious bag left on state Route 159 near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Friday afternoon.
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