Students in the Clark County School District come into the lunchroom every day expecting a tasty meal, but few of them know the lengths that food service staff go through to feed all 309,000 of them. The staff at Kelly Elementary School near downtown Las Vegas, stands above the rest, having just received the district’s first Food Service Five Star Award for excellence in the areas of health, safety and attitude.
Any outcome in the pending arbitration between the Clark County School District and the Clark County Education Association could be devastating. If the district wins, teachers will have to pay back thousands in raises. If the teachers win, they keep the money, but the district warns that about 1,000 of them will need to be laid off.
The 58-year-old school floods when it rains, water gushing through storm drains.
Many schools in the Clark County School District go above and beyond traditional services to help their most needy students, offering meals, clothing, school and hygiene supplies and even dental care.
There is a table in the corner farthest from the door in Luanne Wagner’s classroom at Clark High School. On it is peanut butter and jelly. For several students, it is their breakfast, lunch and dinner. “Kids know they can come to me, and I’m here to help them,” Wagner said. “If you’re hungry, there’s food here.”
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Clark County School District teacher Shannon Regin knows what her future holds if the district enacts a contingency plan to lay off 1,000 teachers midyear.
No outsourcing for three years. That’s what the Clark County School District’s negotiators promised 11,000 custodians, bus drivers, cooks and secretaries in a collective contract proposal for now through 2014.
Hundreds of homeless schoolchildren and their families from Clark County School District’s Performance Zone 3 received a meal Nov. 24 at Cimarron-Memorial High School, 2301 N. Tenaya Way. More than 600 families from the zone’s 28 schools were invited to attend the school district’s inaugural Thanksgiving Dinner.
It takes a village to raise a child. At Booker Elementary School, the Gents and Lads dinner is a great example, bringing together male role models from surrounding churches and community organizations to spend an evening with the school’s male students and talk to them about life.
