Racial riots became so prevalent at Rancho High School during the late 1960s and early 1970s that the National Guard was called in.
Education
More than two years after being hit and run over by a school bus, a former Canyon Springs High School student will receive $100,000 as part of a settlement with the Clark County School District.
Don Snyder will take the helm at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as acting president beginning on Feb. 1.
Officials at South Carolina State University say a student who was shot outside an on-campus dormitory has died.
A University of Utah student says he paid his tuition bill with 2,000 one-dollar bills as a silent protest against the rising cost of college.
The State Bar of Nevada has closed its investigation of Clark County School District’s head attorney Carlos McDade, who was under scrutiny because two school officials broke state law while acting under his legal advice.
The female Spring Valley High School teacher suspended while police investigated the appropriateness of her relationship with a male student has resigned.
The state owes $710,000 to the Clark County School District for 5 percent pay raises given under its order to school counselors, psychologists, speech pathologists, and library media specialists.
The clock is ticking down for the appointment of a temporary president for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Retired Boyd Gaming Corp. president turned academic officer Don Snyder, 66, will be recommended by Dan Klaich, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, to fill the acting president position UNLV, according to a memo sent by Klaich to the state’s Board of Regents.
A new report shows the number of Nevada schoolchildren receiving free or reduced-price meals increased to more than 54 percent statewide.
UNR’s president is backing a push by a growing number of faculty, staff and students to make the Reno campus smoke- and tobacco-free in one of only five states that have no such ban at any of their colleges or universities.
Cimarron-Memorial High School is offering open enrollment for the first time and has 122 seats available. It joins 106 other elementary, middle and high schools with a total of 18,230 vacancies across the Clark County School District for 2014-15.
Nevada higher education officials are putting their wish lists together for the next biennium, but what they are asking for might be difficult to grant.
Katie Sears knows that UNLV’s campus is not in one of the safest areas of the valley.
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