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Advocates help students with health conditions get care they need

When Irene C. Smith found out that her 14-year-old son had Type 1 diabetes, she vowed not to sit around and feel sorry for herself. When problems arose at her son’s school in New Jersey, she realized the disease itself was only the beginning of the struggle.

District renews charter for Rainbow Dreams Academy

Rainbow Dreams Academy received a six-year contract renewal Thursday from Clark County School Board members, who unanimously agreed to continue sponsoring the K-5 charter school serving predominately black students in West Las Vegas.

School Board seeks additional funding to improve struggling schools

Another crop of Clark County’s worst-performing schools are seeking millions in federal aid to reboot over three years, but other schools already deep into their $8.7 million improvement grants remain far from achieving the desired “turnaround” status.

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UNLV repairs fire damages to dorm

UNLV is looking at an estimate of $60,000 to $100,000 to repair water damages in a dormitory complex resulting from a fire earlier this month.

Nevada GOP senators offer initiative to tax mining for school funding

Nevada Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced their Education Priority Initiative to tax gold and silver mining to fund education, which they said will serve as a competing measure to the flawed teacher-backed margins tax that will be on the ballot in 2014.

Sandoval touts high school student jobs program

Gov. Brian Sandoval and the governor of Delaware said Monday a 4-month-old program to help at-risk high school students already has shown signs of success in Nevada.

Clark County teachers union president to head state organization

CARSON CITY — After serving the maximum six years as the president of the Nevada State Education Association, Lynn Warne will be replaced in July by Ruben Murillo Jr., current president of the Clark County Education Association.

UNLVNow project hinges on proposed legislation

The passage of a piece of legislation will be the trigger that would allow officials to move forward with the UNLVNow project, officials said Friday.

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