If you want to be hip and edgy, you’ve got to have the beat. The Beat Dance Academy has opened at the Las Vegas Sports Park, 1400 N. Rampart Blvd., and offers classes for children 2 or older.
Education
CARSON CITY — Legislators must decide by Friday, the 40th day of the 2013 session, whether they are going to approve or just punt on the Nevada State Education Association’s petition to raise $800 million a year through a 2 percent business margins tax.
Mary Warrington doesn’t mind going the extra mile to be well prepared for her students and help them excel in their education.
Departing Superintendent Dwight Jones constantly praises Western High School as a symbol of his successful reforms. But, despite being touted as a model school and showing some improvement, only 55 percent of Western’s seniors earned diplomas in 2012.
At least 1,700 teachers are expected to be hired for the 2013-2014 school year, lowering average class sizes by two students in the Clark County School District, officials announced Thursday.
About 460 students will be switching elementary schools this fall because of redrawn boundaries for nine southwest campuses. The rezoning will shuffle some students among Batterman, Bendorf, Bryan, Hayes, Hill, Kim, Ries, Roger and Wiener elementary schools. Forbuss, Reedom and Wright will be switching to year-round schedules to alleviate crowding.
Superintendent Dwight Jones said Wednesday he doesn’t want to leave the Clark County School District hanging, and that’s why he is resigning instead of taking a leave of absence to care for his ailing mother in Texas. Jones is ending his two-year tenure with two weeks’ notice, well short of the 90 days required by his contract.
CARSON CITY — Assemblyman Harvey Munford found some surprising opposition Wednesday to his bill to penalize students who cheat: the Clark County School District, the Nevada Association of School Superintendents and the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Win or lose, UNLV’s entry in a prestigious solar energy competition will have a nice, sunny place to come home to.
With more of his reforms in shambles than in action, Superintendent Dwight Jones will leave the Clark County School District halfway through his four-year contract. Hired in October 2010 for a $358,000 annual compensation package, Jones publicly announced his departure Tuesday. His last day is March 22, well short of his contractual requirement to give 90 days’ notice, School District sources said.
After recently reading the true story “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,” students at Robinson Middle School set out to fold 1,000 paper cranes for Children’s Hospital of Nevada at University Medical Center.
CARSON CITY — An initiative to tax businesses grossing more than $1 million a year gets its first hearing before state lawmakers and will headline the discussion as the Nevada Legislature enters its fifth week.
When lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval touted a package of education overhauls two years ago that were set to change the face of education in Nevada, they expected the key piece of the project — a high-stakes teacher evaluation — to be ready to go this year.
Nevada’s public colleges and universities must better embrace online education, or their students will go elsewhere.
Forbuss, Reedom and Wright elementary schools will move to year-round schedules in the fall to deal with crowding, Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones decided Friday afternoon.
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