Maurice Gallagher, chairman of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel, offered some of his business philosophies Tuesday to students at the College of Southern Nevada. He spoke to about 50 students and faculty members on the Charleston campus.
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A medical emergency unrelated to a schoolyard fight put a Clark County seventh grader in a coma, a captain with Clark County School District police said Tuesday.
Clark County School District and Southern Nevada Health District officials hope to wrap up a first round of tuberculosis testing at Liberty High School on Tuesday.
The parents of two autistic brothers claim Clark County School District employees have continued to conceal allegations of abuse at a school for disabled students since the couple filed a civil rights lawsuit in November 2012.
One question came to mind when Christina Leventis heard that her child and 44,000 other Nevada public school students would be used to field test the state’s new tests for problems. Can Nevada schools make students, like her 11th-grade daughter, take the draft test that Leventis argues would be a favor to the testing company that needs to “test its test”?
Faith Lutheran High School’s Luke Kecman, 18, is known for being artistic with a fascination for video games and a knack for mimicking character voices. He also is a special needs student who will graduate this spring with an adjusted diploma for meeting his individualized goals.
Authorities are investigating a fight at Mike O’Callaghan Middle School that sent a girl to the hospital.
More teachers, assistant principals, deans, buses, school support staff and full-day kindergarten classrooms are planned for Clark County public schools in 2014-15 due to an expected $61 million increase in revenue and the elimination of $7 million in contracts with outside parties producing lackluster results.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky has demoted a Cabinet member promoted just eight months ago, acting under pressure from a School Board member, according to school sources.
(AP) — A new report shows white and Asian children in Nevada are far better positioned for success than the state’s black and Latino children, although all groups fare worse than the national average.
The University of Nevada, Reno is gearing up to go tobacco-free by August 2015.
The Science Bowl has rules — no notes, no calculators and no second chances. That’s OK because the team from The Meadows School didn’t need any of those things. In April, five of its upper school students are set to travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Science Bowl Finals. Hyde Park Middle School’s team also earned a spot in the competition.
Roughly 37 million in the U.S. are saddled with $1 trillion in student debt, and they may never catch up with wealthy peers who began life after college free from the burden.
A person at Liberty High School was diagnosed with an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis, according to the Southern Nevada Health District and the Clark County School District.
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