Complaints were lodged Thursday with the Nevada Commission on Ethics alleging Clark Count School Board members Chris Garvey and Linda Young spent taxpayer resources on campaigning.
Education
A female Spring Valley High School teacher has been suspended while police investigate whether she had an inappropriate relationship with a male student.
Graduation requirements for Clark County School District students were changed Thursday to eliminate the controversial High School Proficiency Exams and the certificate of attendance given as consolation each year to about 1,000 seniors who failed the tests but passed their classes.
Students at Owen Roundy Elementary School participated in a fitness presentation with Olympian and current American hammer throw record holder Amanda Bingson on Friday.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
Nevada children have less chance for success than those in all other states and Washington, D.C., according to the Education Week’s 2014 Quality Counts report.
The Obama administration on Wednesday pressed the nation’s schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal’s office.
Erin Cranor, who is under state investigation for allegations of using taxpayer resources to campaign in an election, was elected president of the Clark County School Board on Wednesday.
It’s a mouthful: Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator. Many people may not know how to pronounce that, let alone what it means.
It’s a Friday morning at Galloway Elementary School in Henderson, and Drew Stevens waits as students file into the room and sit cross-legged on the floor.
Despite Smatresk’s decision to leave UNLV to take over as president of the University of North Texas, Brent Hathaway said he is looking forward to what 2014 has to offer the 3,200 students enrolled in the Lee School of Business.
Clark County families at 29 elementary schools are breathing a sigh of relief, and not because their children will be back in school Monday after a two-week winter break.
Chairman of the UNLV stadium board Don Snyder said he’s finalized negotiations with a Dallas-area consulting company, meaning the firm can start advising the 11-member panel next month on the need, size, cost and possible funding for an on-campus stadium.
The burden of college costs will climb in coming years for students in Nevada.
Solar panels have been installed on the rooftops and in the parking lot of the Desert Research Institute in Reno.