Education
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation recently honored 251 schools from 25 states for efforts to create a healthier environment for students. Clark County schools receiving recognition were Sewell and Lunt elementary schools and Northwest Career and Technical Academy.
It comes as no shock to Jacqueline Duarte that the employment rate among youths is the lowest since World War II.
UNLV graduate student Lauren Adkins plans to marry a cardboard cutout of the Edward Cullen character from the “Twilight” saga as a performance art piece for her master’s thesis project.
On paper, Booker Elementary School is exceptional, exceeding standards with four out of five stars, according to the district’s assessment.
Not one of Clark County’s 357 public schools was a “low performer” last year, earning the bottom ranking of one star.
Though charges won’t be filed against two Clark County School District teachers on allegations that they had sex with a 16-year-old Basic High School student, they still won’t be returning to the classroom.
What good are clean-energy cars if the batteries that power them catch fire? That’s the problem a UNLV research team will try to unravel under a three-year, $2.5 million grant that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday.
More than 700 Clark County School District students were given ID cards last year in a trial tracking their whereabouts on school buses, according to Director of Transportation Frank Giordano.
For a group of about 200 high school students, their Nov. 15 breakfast was certainly the most important meal of the day. Students from across the Las Vegas Valley met with teachers and public officials for the 2012 Mayors Prayer Breakfast at Texas Station.