Monte Bay hasn’t heard much, but what he suspects gnaws at the back of his mind.
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Seven-year-old Kayana Benson can go on and on about her friend Avery’s cool purple top that makes the shape of a butterfly. She got it at Target. It’s “really cute.” And, did she mention it looks like a butterfly?
Teacher orientation happens at the start of every school year, but the conversations are a little different after a year of budget upheaval that ended in layoffs. High-demand teachers in subjects such as math feel a little security that other teachers do not.
Students from 34 schools gathered Wednesday for the Clark County School District’s first summer graduation ceremony. The 314 seniors in caps and gowns made up their high school work in proficiency-exam boot camps and through credit-recovery tutoring to earn diplomas in August.
Clark County schools would receive more money, and other Nevada schools would receive less, if legislators follow through on a consultant’s suggestion to make state education funding more equitable.
University of Notre Dame student Caitlin Crommett started DreamCatchers, a nonprofit group that grants final wishes for senior citizens in hospice care, in California as a high school student. Now she’s looking to expand the club to schools and hospices in the Las Vegas Valley.
The International Black Aerospace Council hosted an aviation industry conference at the Las Vegas Hotel recently for about 40 youths. The group’s goal was to generate interest among black students in aerospace careers.
It was a different crop of prospective students that showed up Friday morning for orientation at the College of Southern Nevada. Instead of fresh-faced high school graduates, about forty mainly gray-haired military veterans gathered in hopes of improving their prospects.
The Southern Nevada Immunization and Health Coalition and its partners will sponsor back-to-school immunization clinics Aug. 18-25 to help families meet Nevada’s immunization requirements. Back-to-school events will begin with health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Teamsters Local 631, 700 N. Lamb Blvd.
A new high school girls basketball program plans to begin play this season in Southern Nevada.
The ritual is the same, even if the specifics differ from year to year. Hundreds of thousands of new high school graduates flood into the nation’s universities every fall.
The last of 419 laid-off teachers have been rehired by the same district that let them go.
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