Clark County school support staff voted down everything that their local union leaders sought at a frenzied Thursday meeting, including contract terms with a proposed 2 percent cost of living raise and a move to break with the National Education Association, according to the Education Support Employees Association’s website.
Education
UNLV President Neal Smatresk might not receive a pay increase as the state’s Board of Regents consider his contract renewal.
Cynthia “Cindi” Messerli has been a teacher for 20 years, and her family is enormous.
A few associate degrees in the applied sciences are almost impractical nowadays and could be of little or no use to students, college officials said.
A Clark County’s teachers union executive director is facing a federal hearing prompted by accusations that he fired an employee because she wanted to unionize.
Ruthe Deskin was at the forefront of women and children’s issues in Southern Nevada. She died in 2004 at the age of 88, and the elementary school at 4550 N. Pioneer Way was named for her.
Hagen Anderson, 18, of Summerlin is one of nine national finalists in Lucerne Dairy’s annual Art of Dairy art contest. The Northwest Career and Tech student created an imaginary world made of up Lucerne products on a cow-shaped template, which was displayed at a local Vons.
Not even an air horn could squelch the angry chant of “no” that spread among hundreds of Clark County School District support staff members who were asked to consider cutting ties to their parent unions Thursday.
Las Vegas student Amna Raza’s run in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee came to an end Wednesday despite a perfect onstage performance.
Stowe Shoemaker will be the next dean of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, university officials announced Wednesday.
Alan Filoteo believes he has the responsibility to excel as a leader in the Hispanic community.
It’s early one Thursday morning at Jay W. Jeffers Elementary School in Las Vegas, and Lisa Cabrera-Terry’s voice is spilling from the first-grade classroom where she’s reading about an illiterate grandma who surprises her family by learning to read.
It took “a lot of courage” for the Clark County School Board to hire Pat Skorkowsky as permanent superintendent, said board member and past president Linda Young, noting that her colleagues were “being hammered to do a national search.”
Military veterans who are students in the College of Southern Nevada’s air conditioning technology program will soon benefit from funds that were donated to the college.
The vote to make Interim Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky permanent will be recast, but not because Clark County School Board members feel they violated the open meeting law Tuesday with their spontaneous interview and hire, said board President Carolyn Edwards on Friday.
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