Ah, the first day of school. A time for hugs, tears, photos and the release of the road-rage monster because there are only 40 parking spots and 200 people who want them.
Education
First day of school and it’s already quite clear. Cambeiro couldn’t be more different from Principal Pamela Simone’s last school, Smalley Elementary School in Henderson. At Cambeiro in east Las Vegas, 90 percent of the students are Hispanic and 98 percent qualify for free or reduced lunches. The challenge – 96 percent of students come with little to no English-speaking abilities.
Even though Master Daniel Jackson claimed another gold medal from the USA Taekwondo National Tournament in July, his real reason for training and teaching martial arts isn’t awards. It is to see the impact in people’s lives.
Sixteen-year-old Aleza Sheppard is sure it’s going to happen. For the sake of her aching back, however, she wishes the shift from textbooks to tablets and similar mobile devices would happen sooner rather than later in Las Vegas.
Another school year begins, and children once again prepare themselves to face the scary — at least for a kid — prospect of having to get used to a brand-new teacher.
Even though students will pay a little more this year, tuition and fees at the state’s colleges and universities remain lower than at higher education institutions in other Western states.
A chain-link fence separates Forbuss Elementary School from the desert at Las Vegas’ southwest edge. The absence of students wrapped the school in silence. But every teacher was present Wednesday, quietly preparing their classrooms for a whole new kind of school year, which begins Monday.
The Clark County School District and its teachers union, the Clark County Education Association, have reached a tentative agreement on 2013-14 contract terms for 18,000 teachers.
Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky explained Thursday how his recent reshuffling and promotions of Clark County School District leadership will slightly cut central office spending.
Special Olympics Nevada is struggling to absorb the unexpected loss of half of a major grant, a $45,000 budget reduction that will mean fewer opportunities for disabled students in the Clark County School District.
The average composite score for Nevada’s students was 21.3 out of 36 possible points, a little higher than the national average of 20.9. Nevada tied with Montana, ranking 25th among the states.
The allegations appear in an amended complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court by John and Dina Phipps, the parents of an autistic child who is nonverbal. The boy was a 10-year-old student at Variety School, a school for disabled students, when the allegations arose.
A local think tank has failed in District Court to force the Clark County School District to hand over 18,000 email addresses issued to its teachers.
When a guest speaker recently challenged a room full of Nevada State College Nepantla Scholars to write a poem about their roots, Carolina Rojas, 18, decided to deliver a special message to her peers. So she rapped it.