Education
Clark County School District mariachi students performed with the school district’s ballet folklórico program and a 90-piece student symphony orchestra at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts after a workshop and rehearsal with professional ensemble Mariachi Cobre from Disney World.
Cox Communications will be airing, live, the graduations of 46 local high schools on Channel 96 from June 10-24. The ceremonies can also be watched live at cox96.net by clicking on the “Live TV” tab, but Cox will only be filming graduations at the Orleans Arena and Thomas & Mack Center. Graduations for Las Vegas and Foothill high schools, for example, won’t be aired because they’re happening at their respective campuses.
Mariamo Mukoma completed her courses while helping her immigrant family. Michael McGrath spent part of his senior year living in a homeless encampment. And Quilon Cochran balanced schoolwork with caring for her new baby.
Not one comprehensive urban high school earned five stars under Clark County School District’s new ranking system, the School Performance Framework, released Thursday.
■ $2,000 R-Jeneration scholarships: Flo Awuah and Claudia Peck, Las Vegas Academy.
The announcement made the entire table of Coronado High School students gasp Monday.
Prom never entered his mind, not even when he rolled to the ledge and saw rose petals strewn over the school’s wheelchair ramp, down to her. Ben Bunker instinctively turned the other way.
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