Katie Sears knows that UNLV’s campus is not in one of the safest areas of the valley.
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The first few months for the UNLV stadium board members have been like a pregame warm-up. But now it’s game time for the 11-member team of hotel-casino executives, university system regents and local officials. Time to start delivering — and absorbing — public-policy stadium hits.
Wende Lestelle has been aboard a Russian icebreaker ship to Antarctica, studying glaciers and penguins. She’s dug for dinosaur fossils outside Bozeman, Mont., with Jack Horner, the renowned paleontologist. She’s walked in the waters of the Amazon River.
A retired Boyd Gaming Corp. president turned academic officer, a former university president or a higher education provost and one-time law school dean.
Investor? Angel? High-stakes gambler?
An acting or interim president for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas could be named next week.
Complaints were lodged Thursday with the Nevada Commission on Ethics alleging Clark Count School Board members Chris Garvey and Linda Young spent taxpayer resources on campaigning.
A female Spring Valley High School teacher has been suspended while police investigate whether she had an inappropriate relationship with a male student.
Graduation requirements for Clark County School District students were changed Thursday to eliminate the controversial High School Proficiency Exams and the certificate of attendance given as consolation each year to about 1,000 seniors who failed the tests but passed their classes.
Students at Owen Roundy Elementary School participated in a fitness presentation with Olympian and current American hammer throw record holder Amanda Bingson on Friday.
Nevada children have less chance for success than those in all other states and Washington, D.C., according to the Education Week’s 2014 Quality Counts report.
The Obama administration on Wednesday pressed the nation’s schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal’s office.
Erin Cranor, who is under state investigation for allegations of using taxpayer resources to campaign in an election, was elected president of the Clark County School Board on Wednesday.
It’s a mouthful: Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator. Many people may not know how to pronounce that, let alone what it means.
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