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Education
The Nevada State AFL-CIO, which represents 200,000 workers, voted Friday to oppose the margins tax measure to fund public education that is on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
One minute, 8-year-old Zorion Connell is talking about Legos and toy guns, and the next he’s articulating math equations using Ohm’s law. On April 5, he passed the Federal Communications Commission’s amateur radio license exam.
Fifty-five colleges and universities, including Ohio State, the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, are under investigation over their handling of sexual abuse complaints under Title IX.
In hopes of planting knowledge about healthy eating and teaching students in the special education department about agriculture and horticulture, Gary Manning started a gardening program last month at Coronado High School.
In John Tomasello’s Storybook Theater class, children don’t just listen to him read books such as “Where the Wild Things Are.”
After a five-year hiatus due to lost leadership, the College of Southern Nevada’s honors program is being resurrected by professor Patrick Quinn and others from the English department. Beginning in fall 2014, the school will offer advanced classes.
The Desert Research Institute will open its doors Wednesday night for a rare — and free — look inside some of its labs in Las Vegas. The open house, called Science LIVE!, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at 755 E. Flamingo Road, next to the National Atomic Testing Museum just west of Swenson Street.
Two male students from Greenspun Junior High School allege they were sexually, physically and verbally harassed by other students for months because of their “perceived sexual orientation,” but received little help from school officials, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the School District in Clark County District Court.
The College of Southern Nevada is now a minority-serving institution for Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander students. The designation, announced Monday and issued by the U.S. Department of Education, recognizes the CSN student body is composed of more than 50 percent low-income or Pell Grant eligible students and at least 10 percent of the student population identifies with the ethnicities indicated by the award.
If you know anything about the history of the Clark County School District, you know that it is often short of money and classroom space, but it has never suffered from a lack of costly expert analysis and commissioned studies.
The good news is that Latinos graduate from college at the same rate as whites in Nevada. The bad news is that those numbers are still below the national average. Excelencia in Education found that 39 percent of Silver State Latino students and white students graduate from college in four years, compared to 41 percent and 50 percent nationally.
U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks away without a diploma, and it’s even worse in Nevada.
It’s a time of year for new beginnings, starting a new chapter, choosing our paths wisely and marching boldly into the future.
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