A 24-pack of stress balls sits in the office of Laure Forsberg, principal of Fitzgerald Elementary School.
Education
The state’s Board of Regents on Friday approved a shrinking budget for the next biennium for Western Nevada College during a special meeting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Lorraine Alderman announced her resignation Thursday from the Clark County School Board overseeing the nation’s fifth-largest school system, effective Oct. 23.
The Leader in Me, which has started branching out into preschools and middle schools, is one of “literally dozens” of programs seeking to improve the school climate, said Paul Baumann, director of the National Center for Learning and Civic Engagement.
In 2010, Lea Williams decided to finish what she had started 20 years earlier — her bachelor’s degree in education. The bad economy and the Grant-in-Aid program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas spurred her return to the classroom. The program, funded by the state, provides educational assistance to academic faculty, professional employees, classified employees and part-time employees and instructors.
Last week, a camera crew from the USA Network arrived at West Career and Technical Academy to film students as they prepare to tell their personal stories of not fitting in, being bullied, standing up to intolerance or being the bully themselves.
UNLV took second place in this year’s solar decathlon in Irvine, Calif., by designing and building a cost- and energy-effective solar-powered house.
Ted Hartwell is a victim of the federal government shutdown. He is one of several researchers at the Desert Research Institute who have been told by the federal government to stop working. The institute is the research arm of the Nevada System of Higher Education and about 50 percent of its funding comes from the federal government.
CSN isn’t the state’s only higher education institution required to pay back money to the U.S. Department of Education because of financial aid errors, according to officials and records obtained by the Review-Journal. However, none of the amounts other state colleges have had to reimburse was as significant as the $1.7 million CSN has to repay after miscalculating federal financial aid for thousands of students during the last two years.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas students Thursday climbed to No. 2 out of 19 teams in the Solar Decathlon, a Department of Energy-sponsored competition that challenges students to create energy-efficient homes.
Bus drivers are in such short supply for the Clark County School District that the School Board declared a “critical labor shortage” on Thursday.
Not even a quarter of Kelly Elementary School’s fifth-graders read at grade level in the 2010-11 school year. A year later, that more than tripled to 77 percent, according to state test results that spurred more questions than congratulations for the Clark County School District campus.
UNLV plans a campaign to raise more than $500 million to help finance Southern Nevada’s first medical school, a major on-campus football stadium/entertainment center and other major campus improvements, the university’s president said Wednesday.
Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey on Wednesday announced she is stepping down from her post immediately, according to a message she sent to the college community.
Tweets posted Wednesday claim she’s a special education student who was told by other students to undress, but other Durango students who posted claim otherwise. What happened, the subject’s student status, and whether she was coerced or voluntarily undressed, remains unclear.
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