The state’s investigation into a Las Vegas elementary for its high jump in test scores has found that adults erased students’ incorrect answers and filled in the correct response.
Education
As a high school student in North Las Vegas, Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez had to worry about more than her grades — she had to worry about where she would sleep at night.
To aid recruiting and ease the transition for community college students, Nevada State College announced Tuesday that it will have permanent offices on all three College of Southern Nevada campuses.
Former Southern Nevada Water Authority boss Pat Mulroy will become a fellow at Brookings Mountain West and a faculty associate of Desert Research Institute, the organizations announced Tuesday.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
After receiving a report detailing problems within its financial aid department, the College of Southern Nevada is continuing to improve operations in staffing and technology. College of Southern Nevada will hire a technology specialist within the next few days to overhaul the school’s financial aid system.
UNLVino founders Jerry Vallen and Larry Ruvo will be honored for 40 years of success Saturday night at the event’s Grand Tasting.
A 22-year-old former long-term substitute teacher at Hyde Park Middle School will plead guilty to charges she had an affair with a 15-year-old male student, her lawyer said Friday.
The Clark County School Board approved a $2.2 billion budget for the 2014-15 school year on Thursday that includes money for more teachers, assistant principals, deans, buses, school support staff and full-day kindergarten classrooms.
The Clark County School District plans to hire 2,000 new teachers for next school year, rivaling the hiring effort for this school year which added 2,100 teachers and marked the district’s most intensive hiring effort since the enrollment boom days of 2005.
Along with celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the city of Henderson Legal Minds program also had its 5,000th student March 26.
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.
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.