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After years of mixed performance and three contract extensions, EdisonLearning will no longer be overseeing seven Clark County elementary schools.
A call from Clark County School Board Vice President Linda Young to limit the powers of Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky was answered Thursday by another board member who suggested policy changes. The amendment would require the superintendent to “make the board aware of… personnel changes in instructional or operational leadership,” but doesn’t require the board’s approval in any way, as Young wanted.
Preschool teachers would receive 510 iPads at a cost of $245,000 to monitor the progress of students heading into kindergarten if the state approves a Clark County School District grant application.
The Clark County School Board voted Wednesday to shift attendance boundaries for eight elementary schools, one middle school and one high school for 2014-2015. The Clark County School District campuses targeted by rezoning are struggling with enrollments that exceed their capacities.
The state’s multi-agency investigation of a Las Vegas elementary school for possible irregularities in student test scores is drawing to a close and findings will be written in a couple weeks, State Superintendent of Public Schools Dale Erquiaga said on Wednesday. He will present the investigation’s findings to the Nevada Board of Education in April.
The Nevada Board of Education decided Wednesday to lower the minimum passing score on the math test required to graduate high school to 242 out of 500 possible points for current sophomores and juniors. Previously, these students needed to earn a minimum score of 300.
Samantha Johnson is shooting for the moon and hoping at least to land among the stars, or with any luck find someone who has been among them. The 6-year-old Sunrise resident is on a mission to meet an astronaut.
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.