CARSON CITY – A Washington, D.C.-headquartered education research firm was chosen Friday by an interim legislative committee to carry out a $125,000 study aimed at finding a new way to fund public schools in Nevada.
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John Cole won’t be fighting to keep his seat on the School Board that oversees the nation’s fifth-largest system, the Clark County School District, and 308,000 students.
An unusual battle has ignited between the Clark County School District and the teachers union, adding to an already fiery, nine-month war that sides have said will end in either 1,000 teachers layoffs or a pay freeze.
To help keep the Earth clean, kids at the Goddard School in Henderson spent March learning how to conserve energy by eating without the lights on and recycling.
For one day every year, Las Vegas High School history teacher Dan Robinson and his students transform a classroom at the school at 6500 E. Sahara Ave. into a Holocaust museum.
Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School student Alex Giuliani is prepping for the Las Vegas Open and Southwest Regional Benchpress, Deadlift and Pushpull Championship, set for May 6 at CrossFit Las Vegas. He hopes to surpass the raw deadlift record of 460 pounds in the 13-to-15 age division for 198 pounds or under.
UNLV anthropology professor Alyssa Crittenden recently published a study that suggests honey played a bigger part in the rise of big-brained humans than anyone previously thought.
It doesn’t take a college education to understand that sex sells. Like it or not, UNLV students are surrounded by the temptations of Sin City and its lights, lust and liquor. And if sex sells, then stripping can surely pay the bills.