The Adelson Educational Campus, a Jewish private school in Summerlin, received a $50 million gift Wednesday from its founders, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson.
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The Utah Shakespeare Festival has performances of “Romeo and Juliet” scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre at the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus, 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave.
Teaching wasn’t part of Dana Martin’s original life plan, but she says breaking through to students at Cannon Junior High School has been a rewarding experience all the same.
Silverado High School senior Angelo DeSantis has changed a lot since the sixth grade, as does any teenager.
But he’s been able to stay on course due in part to one teacher whose lessons never have left him: Jake Murray, his physical education teacher and basketball coach from Schofield Middle School in southeast Las Vegas.
The freezer the size of a football field is packed full of food. It’s everything needed to daily serve 200,000 meals, most of which are prepared from scratch and trucked to the Clark County School District’s 357 public schools.
Brian Cirricione was part of a unique caravan Friday morning: Four Medic West ambulances, with lights flashing, escorted a giant, anatomically correct heart to Luxor.
The union-created health trust covering one of the largest employee groups in the state – Clark County’s 17,000 public school teachers – is hemorrhaging money and will be “belly up in 60 to 90 days.”
The Nevada Supreme Court handed off to legislators a Nevada State Education Association business tax petition Thursday, in effect crying “Let the tax battle begin.”