Education
Wright Elementary School was built to hold about 800 students, but today it has an enrollment of more than 1,200. If something doesn’t change, it will be forced to turn back to year-round schooling.
Establishing more laws barring sex between teachers and students.
Despite overcoming the eleventh-hour drama with its teachers union over merely applying for a Race to the Top grant, the Clark County School District failed to make the list of 61 finalists for the $400 million federal program.
An autistic student knocked her out cold the first week on the job. But, more than a year later, Laranne Remling is still Western High School’s special education teacher for the severely handicapped – and so much more.
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce has received the Nevada Association of School Boards’ executive committee friend of education award for being a vocal advocate for public school students.
It wasn’t your normal Thanksgiving meal for the needy, but so much more.
She wraps her little fingers around the top of a 10-pound bag of potatoes half her height and drags it off the table. Hugging it tight, she waddles out the door.
The representation tug of war drags on for 11,000 Clark County School District bus drivers, janitors and other support staff being courted by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
In 2004, only 7 percent of students at Williams Elementary School passed the state’s reading test. Only 8 percent were proficient in math. Last school year, those numbers were up to 43 percent and 61 percent, respectively, leading to Williams being named a National Title I Distinguished School by the National Title I Association.
The Nevada Association of School Boards honored Review-Journal reporter Trevon Milliard as its 2012 outstanding education print reporter.
The month-long Rebel Reading Challenge kicked off Wednesday with 7,000 screaming fourth- and fifth-graders at the Thomas & Mack Center, pitting the classes of 37 elementary schools against each other to see whose students can read the most pages.