School choice advocate Betsy DeVos’ narrow confirmation on Tuesday as U.S. Department of Education secretary drew mixed reactions from Nevada education leaders.
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School officials from around the state told a Senate panel on Tuesday that some educational requirements imposed on teachers to work in Nevada are burdensome and do not add to the classroom learning experience for their students.
On Day 2 of the 2017 Nevada Legislature, Senate Democrats introduced a minimum-wage bill. Beyond heated debate, the bill will shed light on the strategy Democrats will use to push their liberal agenda.
Arizona’s Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain have introduced legislation to create a new 12th Circuit Court of Appeals by peeling away six states — Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona and Alaska.
A bill to kill the controversial charter school district established in the last legislative session was introduced Tuesday.
Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, recently named chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee for Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure, called the highway a critical project.
The Nevada Association of School Psychologists is lobbying legislators to eliminate the retention requirement for third-graders under the state’s Read by Grade Three initiative.
Nevada lawmakers on Tuesday memorialized fallen North Las Vegas Police Detective Chad Parque, who died last month after a crash with a wrong-day driver.
Assemblyman Jim Wheeler got some chuckles out of fellow legislators with a lighthearted question on Tuesday about the biggest industry in Nevada that most residents already know.
Nursing mothers would have more workplace benefits under a bill introduced in the Nevada Assembly on Tuesday.
Nevada’s minimum wage would increase 75 cents per hour in each of the next five years under a bill introduced Tuesday in the state Senate.
Nevada Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson has requested a slew of bills likely to generate heated debate in this legislative session.
A tax on recreational marijuana and funding for public education among the issues expected to stir debate in Carson City.
It’s the second day of the 2017 Legislative Session. After some surprising fireworks in yesterday’s opening speeches, here are three things to watch for this Tuesday.
Future decisions by the Trump administration on immigration enforcement could signal the next Civil Rights movement, a Cornell Law School professor told journalists Friday at an Education Writers Association seminar.
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