Two major bond rating agencies have downgraded the financially stressed Clark County School District as it prepares for Thursday’ s refinancing sale of $110 million in school construction bonds.
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Las Vegas police have identified the four SWAT officers who exchanged gunfire and killed a suspected burglar near Grand Canyon and Grand Teton drives in the northwest valley shortly after midnight Thursday.
Dakota Jones, 14, an eighth grader at Hyde Park Middle School, won the Nevada State Spelling Bee Saturday for the second year in a row with the spelling of “hubristic.”
Clark County School District Associate Superintendent Joyce Haldeman said, “You can give us more money”
to legislators who questioned why schools can’t provide additional classes needed by credit-deficient students.
CARSON CITY — Although they won’t be using the money anytime soon, Clark County School District representatives testified for a bill Friday that would allow school districts to use some bond reserve funds to build and repair schools.