Something changes when students with disabilities make the transition from high school to college. The burden of education shifts from school to student. That point was made clear for about 500 college-bound seniors with learning disabilities, as the Clark County School District’s Student Support Services Division hosted three days of workshops at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Dozens of children leap and shuffle on the playground before gathering into lines under a crisp blue sky as the school day begins.
The school bus heads toward the country’s eighth-most dangerous neighborhood, D Street west of Interstate 15, carrying 16 students from Faith Lutheran Junior/Senior High School.
Innovations International Charter School received a six-year renewal of its charter from the Clark County School Board on Thursday.
Nearly 250 seventh-graders at Cram Middle School in North Las Vegas battled for three hours last month as Union and Confederate soldiers. Water-soaked sponges substituted for musket and cannon fire.
Thousands of students in the Clark County School District rely on their schools for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Extended breaks from school, such as the two weeks at the end of last month, can be especially trying for struggling families.
Ian Johnson is 13 but years ago — when even Ian says he was young — his mom would put him in timeout for being mischievous. But that never worked.
The Clark County School District’s chief of police has resigned after months of controversy.
Clark County schools are caught in a “perfect storm” of budget cuts, childhood poverty and a huge enrollment, Superintendent Dwight Jones said Thursday in his annual State of the District address at Chaparral High School.
The school board has had minority members, but Linda Young has accomplished something they never could: She was unanimously selected as the board’s first black president.
At Booker Elementary School, Marcus Mason is settling into the position of principal. It is his first time in the head position after 20 years in the Clark County School District. What is different about his career path is Mason started out “cleaning toilets.”
