Even though the Clark County School District has faced many changes, Henderson again is ready to usher in another school year Aug. 26 with a few adjustments.
Education
Backpacks and reams of paper and glue sticks and scissors and colored pencils and crayons and Ziplocks and paper towels and folders and erasers and tissues and a three-ring binder to the exact specifications required.
The new school year is here, and with it come challenges and changes. The good news is the Clark County School District has hired more than 1,500 new teachers. That’s good because the district anticipates a growth of an equal number of new students. The not-so-good news is the high enrollment means the option to go year-round is on the table.
A Venetian ballroom on Thursday was packed with 1,783 people entering their second professions or starting their first. Come Aug. 26, they’ll be standing at the front of classrooms in the nation’s fifth-largest school system – Clark County School District – expecting 312,000 students. New teachers spent two days at the Strip hotel for necessary training.
Wednesday marked a come-behind victory for 325 Clark County School District seniors. Out of thousands more seniors who were short on their graduation requirements this spring and couldn’t walk the stage for their diplomas, this small percentage kept at it, making one last-ditch effort this summer and succeeding.
The reshuffling of Clark County School District’s leaders continues as new Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky makes changes for his first school year at the helm.
CARSON CITY — Dale Erquiaga, a former Clark County School District government affairs director and longtime state government agency officer, was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval as the state superintendent of public instruction.
One UNLV nursing professor has prescribed ballroom dancing as a weapon against cardiovascular disease among Filipinos.
All 10,000 bus drivers, janitors, cooks and other Clark County School District support staff will receive a
2 percent cost of living raise this school year, according to the 2013-15 contract negotiated by district officials and the Education Support Employees Association, which represents the workers.
About 200 district schools are fully staffed and 100 others have just one or two openings as the start of the school year approaches.
A new superintendent won’t be the only major change in leadership for the nation’s fifth-largest school district when summer break ends in three weeks.
College students consider the University of Iowa the nation’s best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers.
Veteran educator and administrator John C. Vanderburg serves as namesake for the elementary school that is home to the Rainforest Biosphere.
With more than 20 comfy examination rooms and a pharmacy stocked with both prescription and over-the-counter medications, UNLV’s Student Health Center is the nicest place on campus that students never want to visit.
For ninth-grader Cristian Lopez, visiting the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was “like a whole other world.”