Students at Bonanza High School are set to perform “Little Shop of Horrors” March 26-28. With the help of prop technicians from Sin City Scenic, the students learned how to make the high-quality plant puppets needed for the show.
Education
Instead of only screening students recommended for gifted and talented programs, about $178,000 will be spent to universally test all 19,900 second-graders at Clark County’s poorest, highest-minority schools.
Grieving father Jason Lamberth was back before the Clark County School Board Thursday, this time with questions about a report he said shows school officials knew his 13-year-old daughter was being bullied before she committed suicide on Dec. 12.
The Board of Regents may name a permanent replacement for former President Neal Smatresk, who now leads the University of North Texas near Dallas, by September.
Third-grader Azja Lee viewed police the same way many of her classmates at Innovations International Charter School do — “scary.” That all changed Wednesday.
Rama Venkat, who has served as interim dean of UNLV’s Howard Hughes College of Engineering since 2010, was named permanent dean Monday.
More than 1,000 struggling seniors are being excluded from Nevada’s graduation rate calculation under direction from the Nevada Department of Education.
More than a dozen UNLV students spoke out against proposed tuition increases at a Friday Board of Regents meeting at the College of Southern Nevada.
The EPA environmental sciences division has occupied five buildings on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus since 1956, but its lease expires in September 2015 and will not be renewed.
An overhaul of human resources and financial systems is underway at Nevada’s higher education institutions.
The perfect score will again be 1,600. What’s more, the essay will be optional, students will no longer be penalized for wrong answers and the vocabulary is shifting to do away with some high-sounding words such as “prevaricator” and “sagacious.”
Voters won’t be asked for a 10-year extension of the Clark County School District’s property tax rate increase, which dates back to 1998, when they go to the polls in November.
Clarence Piggott Elementary School’s namesake was a counselor at Valley High School who was shot by a student in 1982.
The Henderson Chamber of Commerce created its I Can Be program to better equip freshmen with a plan that could help them achieve their career goals.