One question came to mind when Christina Leventis heard that her child and 44,000 other Nevada public school students would be used to field test the state’s new tests for problems. Can Nevada schools make students, like her 11th-grade daughter, take the draft test that Leventis argues would be a favor to the testing company that needs to “test its test”?
Faith Lutheran High School’s Luke Kecman, 18, is known for being artistic with a fascination for video games and a knack for mimicking character voices. He also is a special needs student who will graduate this spring with an adjusted diploma for meeting his individualized goals.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
Authorities are investigating a fight at Mike O’Callaghan Middle School that sent a girl to the hospital.
More teachers, assistant principals, deans, buses, school support staff and full-day kindergarten classrooms are planned for Clark County public schools in 2014-15 due to an expected $61 million increase in revenue and the elimination of $7 million in contracts with outside parties producing lackluster results.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky has demoted a Cabinet member promoted just eight months ago, acting under pressure from a School Board member, according to school sources.
(AP) — A new report shows white and Asian children in Nevada are far better positioned for success than the state’s black and Latino children, although all groups fare worse than the national average.
The University of Nevada, Reno is gearing up to go tobacco-free by August 2015.
The Science Bowl has rules — no notes, no calculators and no second chances. That’s OK because the team from The Meadows School didn’t need any of those things. In April, five of its upper school students are set to travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Science Bowl Finals. Hyde Park Middle School’s team also earned a spot in the competition.
Roughly 37 million in the U.S. are saddled with $1 trillion in student debt, and they may never catch up with wealthy peers who began life after college free from the burden.
A person at Liberty High School was diagnosed with an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis, according to the Southern Nevada Health District and the Clark County School District.
A consultant will be hired to perform a national search for the next president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to a unanimous decision of the Board of Regent members on the president search committee.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas will join in the International Edible Book Festival for the first time on Tuesday at the Lied Library.
To encourage undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, National Security Technologies donated $50,000 to UNLV to create scholarships that that will attract top-performing students and promote national-security-related research.
