Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara lays out ambitious goals, including increasing access to advanced courses, decreasing racial disparities in discipline and solving transportation woes.
Amelia Pak-Harvey
Reporter: Education
Phone: 702-383-4630
Amelia covers K-12 education for the Review-Journal, where she came after covering education for two years at the Lowell Sun in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is a Boston University graduate with degrees in political science and journalism, and her awards include first place in education reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. She’s a proud North Carolina native.
Many state charter schools are outperforming their traditional public school counterparts, leading to long waitlists at many. But a Review-Journal analysis shows that students facing educational challenges are not always being served.
Hiring teachers in Clark County is hard, but hiring a diverse pool of educators that mirrors the student population in the Las Vegas Valley is even more difficult.
The new leader of the Clark County School District isn’t resting on his laurels, highlighting a range of issues in his first State of the Schools address that the district must tackle in order to become the most-improved district in the country.
A new report criticizes the Clark County School District of operating with a culture of “relying on out-of-date practices with no apparent sense of urgency to bring it into the 21st century.”
Lola Brooks is elected by a 5-2 vote after Trustee Linda Young expresses concerns over her employment at a charter school.
The Clark County School Board took on a different look Monday, with three newly elected trustees taking the oath of office and making the first all-female board in more than a decade.
Bonanza High School students returned from winter break on Monday facing a few power issues at school.
The Native Son Spelling Bee, now in its fifth year, offers $1,000 grand prizes to the winners in each grade in honor of the late Clark County educator and community activist Sam Smith.
A Clark County School District middle-school principal has been assigned to home for an unspecified reason, an administrative decision typically made when there is a personnel issue.
Cash payments. Drinks and airfare. Government contracts. All ingredients of a good scandal. But in the case of Nevada’s State Public Charter School Authority, there’s more behind allegations of misconduct than meets the eye.
Many Clark County teachers question the fairness of the professional growth system, a way to earn raises that the district and teachers’ union rolled out in 2016, saying it unfairly penalizes some educators while rewarding others.
A record 83 percent of high school seniors in Nevada graduated in 2018, according to state data released on Friday.
The middle schools were selected Thursday by the State Board of Education to participate in the Achievement School District initiative, which aims to improve academic performance through competition
Woolley and Clyde Cox elementary schools were placed on hard lockdowns around 1:20 p.m. on Thursday following a report of an unknown man acting erratically, according to Clark County School District police.