Education
It was quite the crazy, cross-cultural scene: a 15-year-old student, a year and a half out of Thailand, beginning the first few pages of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” an American classic.
Membership for the local teachers union has dropped by 800 people, reducing its numbers to 62 percent of Clark County public school teachers.
High school is not a four-year foray for many students nowadays. Fifth-year seniors are more common than ever before, administrators say.
Nevada’s college-bound students are leaving high school with low chances of higher education success, according to their average SAT and ACT scores.
More students are attending Clark County public schools than ever before, according to a head count of 311,380 students on Friday.
On Sept. 7, three days before two Clark County teachers were arrested on accusations of having sex with a Henderson high school student, the Pahrump educator who was the catalyst for Nevada’s law against such acts was paroled after serving 16 years of a life sentence for raping a student.
Four community members will be honored today at the Public Education Foundation’s 16th annual Education Hero Award dinner at CityCenter’s Mandarin Oriental hotel.
Eldorado High School is without power and students have been bused to Desert Pines High School while NV Energy tries to resolve the outage, according to Clark County School District officials.
Rainwater streamed down the inside of a classroom wall with one of the few electrical outlets available for about a dozen computers.
Kids danced, played basketball and competed in track and field events Sept. 6, all in the name of fighting childhood obesity as part of Vegas PBS’ Keeping Kids Fit program at the Donald W. Reynolds Clubhouse of the Las Vegas Boys & Girls Club.
Las Vegas High School ninth-grader Alyssa Khamvongsa recently reported for her new after-school internship at Goldfarb Elementary School. She is one of 20 high school students interning for Leaders in Training, a new nonprofit organization started by former Goldfarb teacher Erica Mosca.