Priscilla Rocha, under investigation for misuse of taxpayer funds by the Las Vegas police, says she did nothing wrong, “Everything I did was for the families and students.”
Education
Two decades, restored state funding and private investment are what officials say it will take for UNLV to become a top research university.
Las Vegas police served search warrants to Clark County School District on Wednesday in an investigation of the district’s Adult English Language Acquisition program into possible misuse of taxpayer money, according to district spokeswoman Melinda Malone.
What do a duck, a school and police have in common? They all teamed up for “Walking Wednesday.”
U.S. Reps. Joe Heck, R-Nev., and Dina Titus, D-Nev., disagreed Tuesday on whether President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 would reduce federal funding for career and technical education in Nevada.
The consensus among experts at the Nevada Literacy Summit at University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Invest early and make certain students have grade-level reading skills by the end of third grade.
Students at Bonanza High School are set to perform “Little Shop of Horrors” March 26-28. With the help of prop technicians from Sin City Scenic, the students learned how to make the high-quality plant puppets needed for the show.
Instead of only screening students recommended for gifted and talented programs, about $178,000 will be spent to universally test all 19,900 second-graders at Clark County’s poorest, highest-minority schools.
Grieving father Jason Lamberth was back before the Clark County School Board Thursday, this time with questions about a report he said shows school officials knew his 13-year-old daughter was being bullied before she committed suicide on Dec. 12.
The Board of Regents may name a permanent replacement for former President Neal Smatresk, who now leads the University of North Texas near Dallas, by September.
Third-grader Azja Lee viewed police the same way many of her classmates at Innovations International Charter School do — “scary.” That all changed Wednesday.
Rama Venkat, who has served as interim dean of UNLV’s Howard Hughes College of Engineering since 2010, was named permanent dean Monday.
More than 1,000 struggling seniors are being excluded from Nevada’s graduation rate calculation under direction from the Nevada Department of Education.
More than a dozen UNLV students spoke out against proposed tuition increases at a Friday Board of Regents meeting at the College of Southern Nevada.
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