A 12-year-old Southern California boy who hopes to become a computer engineer will be the youngest full-time student in the history of MiraCosta College when he enrolls next month.
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Washoe County School Superintendent Pedro Martinez is suing the school district over his ouster, and the Reno-Gazette Journal is asking the Nevada attorney general to investigate whether the School Board violated Nevada’s open meeting law.
Priscilla Rocha sneaked nearly $14,000 worth of computers and electronic equipment — bought with Clark County School District money — across the Mexican border without a customs inspection, according to grand jury transcripts obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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Pedro Martinez, the former deputy superintendent of Clark County School District who resigned in 2012 to become superintendent of Washoe County School District, has been relieved of duty “effective immediately,” according to the Northern Nevada school system.
Nevada’s public school system remains dead last in the nation for a third year running, according to an analysis of children’s well-being released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation on Tuesday.
Receiving advice from Vice President Joe Biden and meeting White House senior administration officials are some of the perks of Kaleema Ishmel’s first full-time job. Ishmel, 19, is a 2013 Valley High School graduate who was chosen for a White House summer internship.
In the heart of north London lies the ancient Queens Wood, a green forest hidden away in a metropolis of more than 8 million residents. The sounds of the city seem to fade away as a group of children plays in a mud kitchen, pretending to prepare food and saw wood.
A former Clark County School District official was among five people indicted by a grand jury Friday in the theft of $289,000 in public funds from the district’s Adult English Language Services Acquisition program.
UNLV students will host an education fair on Saturday aimed at enrolling more Latino students across Nevada campuses.
The Clark County School Board has raised several bars for Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to clear by 2019.
The Environmental Protection Agency has hit a snag in consolidating and relocating its research laboratories and offices in Las Vegas.
About $301 million will be spent during the next five years on major capital projects in the Clark County School District, including replacing one school, renovating aging campuses and adding portable classrooms to alleviate student crowding.
The vampire in the teen romance your daughter checked out from the library is fictional — but there could be a bloodsucker lurking in the book’s binding that isn’t make believe.