Education
State funding to Great Basin and Western Nevada colleges would dwindle by a third if lawmakers support the Board of Regents’ recommended budget using a new performance-based formula, starting in 2013.
The Nevada State Education Association has begun to circulate its petition to levy a business tax to raise money for education, although a new legal challenge could lead to any signatures being declared invalid.
An order from a Teachers Health Trust official to increase paycheck deductions for the coming school year was rejected by Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones as an illegal request.
Girls flag football took the last step Thursday to becoming a varsity sport at eligible Clark County School District high schools.
English teachers are being added to the Clark County School District’s list of positions experiencing a “critical labor shortage.”
Five autistic children whose families contend the Clark County School District kept an abusive teacher in the classroom despite repeated complaints will receive shares of a $590,000 lawsuit settlement.
Teachers returning to the classroom may again be working under unnerving conditions as their union and the Clark County School District face off in arbitration.
More than 100 middle school students from across the Las Vegas Valley attended Henderson Summer July 9 through Aug. 10 at The Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain. Sponsored by GB Henderson Education, the program taught kids about the food industry.
The Clark County School District will be starting school Monday with a shortage of teachers and class size increases. Regardless, Superintendent Dwight Jones and new Deputy Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky expect improvements in state standardized test scores and the district’s graduation rate.
