There were no techniques taught in this April 10 art class at Innovations International Charter School of Nevada. Students were learning more important things from guest teacher and professional artist Alexander P. Huerta.
Education
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.
A private university plans to establish a medical school in Southern Nevada, officials said on Friday.
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.
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.
The Clark County School District is taking on $34 million in new debt to buy 172 buses and about 14,000 computers.
More than two-thirds of Clark County School District sophomores failed the state’s math proficiency exam this year, a new low for first-time test-takers in recent history.
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 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.
Brian Howerton sighed as the judges named the bronze medalist at the Percussion World Championships late Friday night.
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.
The Clark County School Board needs to start searching for a new superintendent to run the nation’s fifth-largest school district, but it first wants to hear the public’s criteria for the new leader.
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.
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.
The state higher education’s Board of Regents on Friday opposed a bill that would add a student to the board.