Education
Time after time, the school nurse refers pain-stricken children to a doctor or dentist but doubts their parents will take them.
Las Vegas police sent officers to all 300 public and private schools in the city Friday to ease fears shortly after a gunman walked into an elementary school 2,500 miles away in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults at the school.
Opening elementary schools consisting entirely of portable rooms. Adding portable classrooms to existing schools where the fields are already packed with as many as 20 portables.
EdisonLearning is at last making gains at the half dozen Clark County public schools it has operated for more than a decade, and not a moment too soon.
Clark County public schools will receive $15.6 million more than predicted in the 2012-13 school year, mostly because of an increase in enrollment and Nevada’s per-student funding rate, according to the district’s amended budget adopted Thursday.
It has been well-known for some time that Clark County schools rank low nationally, but how do they compare with schools in Germany, Japan, Canada and Finland, whose graduates will be competing with Americans in an increasingly global job market?
The Carson City School District was named one of 16 recipients Tuesday of a competitive, Race to the Top education grant, an award that will provide up to $10 million to help students. It was the only winner from Nevada.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas associate professor of architecture Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez is no stranger to teaching awards the list is long and full of prestigious titles. In November, it got a little longer when he was named the 2012 Nevada Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
“We found ourselves saying, ‘If this was my school, I’d do it this way,’ ” Lana Strong said of teaching in public school. So she and her fellow teacher, Aja Staniszewski, decided to do something about it.
The 6-year-old boy whose foot was run over by a school bus Monday morning was throwing rocks at cars from the median, darting in front of traffic and essentially ran into the bus, witnesses told investigators.
Everything seems tranquil on the surface of Quest Academy, where a shielded crest hangs over the front door and children scurry around in matching khaki shorts, skirts and polo shirts.
Clark County school officials want to change several rules regarding charter schools and online classes, according to a pair of bill draft requests the district is backing for the Nevada Legislature’s 2013 session.
The Nevada State Education Association jumped the first of two big hurdles Friday in its race to force the state Legislature to consider adopting an $800 million-a-year tax increase for public schools.
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