Education
Except for one building covering an acre, Nevada State College is 508 acres of vacant Henderson land waiting for a campus.
Ballot Question No. 2 asks voters for a six-year property tax rate increase to fund renovations and improvements at aging Clark County schools.
The Clark County School Board election won’t be a simple re-election in Henderson and southeast Las Vegas. That was made clear June 12 when incumbent Deanna Wright squeaked through the primaries.
Times are turbulent in the Clark County School District, and board member Chris Garvey wants to stay at the helm.
Northwest Las Vegas voters are the only residents who must choose between two new faces to represent them on the Clark County School Board, and both candidates argue their professional expertise is the missing ingredient in overseeing America’s fifth-largest school district.
Forty schools that would benefit from a $669 million property tax increase already have received $490 million in investments since 1994, according to a conservative think tank that questions the necessity of a ballot initiative the Clark County School District is pitching to voters.
Summerlin KinderCare Learning Center teacher Nicole Lowery received an unexpected gift Oct. 1 as a result of winning the Early Childhood Educator Award from Knowledge Universe, an Oregon-based company that operates KinderCare centers nationwide.
A judge declined Friday to make an immediate decision on whether the Nevada State Education Association can continue circulating its petition to impose a 2 percent business margins tax to raise funds for public education.
Yvette Scott was sold on the property tax increase for Clark County School District improvements before Superintendent Dwight Jones said a word at a town hall meeting Tuesday morning.
Global Community High School is looking to help students across the valley who have been in the country for several years but still have a gap in their English proficiency through its Language Enrichment Acquisition and Acceleration Program.