State lawmakers were updated Tuesday on the first-ever, statewide teacher evaluation system being implemented in the fall, but a lot of questions remain. For one, the specifics of the scoring system have yet to be created, members of the Legislative Committee on Education learned Tuesday.
Every single child in Nevada public schools will soon be assigned an identification number and tracked in detail from preschool through high school to college under the combined efforts of a trio of state departments creating a super-data system. It’s called the Statewide Longitudinal Data System — SLDS for short — and it has more than parents concerned.
The Nevada System of Higher Education has proposed a 4 percent tuition increase for all state colleges and universities starting in fall 2015 and continuing through 2019.
Three persistently poor-performing Clark County schools have been labeled “turnaround schools,” meaning the campuses will receive extra resources over the next three years and experience dramatic staff changes to improve student standings.
The Children’s Discovery Museum, the Springs Preserve, the National Atomic Testing Museum and the Marjorie Barrick Museum at UNLV are among Las Vegas-area museums featuring visiting and temporary exhibits.
Justin Brecht, Clark County’s educator of the month, is the mind behind an extended-day fifth-grade class that teaches students life and academic skills with the goal of preparing them for middle school, high school and one day, college.
There are a lot of reasons people run: for fun, for health or both. At Bonner Elementary School, they run for education.
Families of Lied Middle School have been subjected to their share of controversy over the past half year because two male teachers were charged with sex crimes against children, but the upheaval isn’t over. The teachers facing criminal charges are gone, but Principal Kimberly Bass-Davis has also been transferred away from Lied.
State Treasurer Kate Marshall announced Tuesday the statewide rollout of Nevada College Kick Start, a $50 college-savings fund for each of Nevada’s 35,000 kindergartners — 25,000 of whom live in Clark County.
The Clark County School Board has yet to decide whether it will ask voters in November for a 10-year extension of a 1998 increase of the property tax rate, but school district staff is calling it a bad idea.
The decision by Acting President Don Snyder and Provost John White should be made “very soon,” said Carl Reiber, vice provost for academic affairs. Reiber said Tuesday that he and his colleagues conferred with 50 to 60 deans of reputable schools before choosing a handful of finalists.
U.S. News & World Report ranked UNLV among the top universities by yield in its recently released 2014 report, meaning a high number of students who are accepted also enroll.
Clark County’s schools chief could be stripped of his absolute power to promote and transfer administrators because one of his high-ranking officials may have inappropriately influenced a hire, education sources said.
“In the past, we’ve had a backward way of testing for lead,” said Shawn Gerstenberger, the interim dean of the school of community health sciences at UNLV. “We test children, and if they test positive for lead, then we test the house.” Now thanks to a a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, UNLV is teaming with the city of Henderson to test for and remove lead from older homes.
