Shadow Ridge High School educators protested against pay freezes before school on Tuesday morning, matching the spirit of teacher protests in other states while working around Nevada’s anti-strike law.
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.
Former Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy has withdrawn his name from consideration in the Clark County School District’s superintendent search in the wake of a School Board decision to consider internal candidates.
The district announced on Tuesday that it had filed a motion to vacate the arbitrator’s decision — estimated to cost $13 million in fiscal year 2018 and $38.5 million the next year.
The school district has been trying to desegregate and lift up schools in west Las Vegas and southern North Las Vegas for more than 50 years. But man students at those schools still aren’t receiving a quality education.
Clark County school employees “have never before in their CCSD life seen it this bad,” according to the head of the the administrators union.
The winnowing of the field from 77 applicants came after a nationwide search for a successor to retiring Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky.
Pat Skorkowsky’s presence on the board of directors of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance gives the school district a new presence on the organization that seeks to boost economic development in the area.
Clark County School District educators have won an arbitration over their 2017-2018 contract that will provide increases in pay and health care contributions.
Some schools are achieving stellar results after participating in the initiative to lift struggling schools, but some others sank back into mediocrity after exiting the program, a Review-Journal analysis shows.
Three Centennial High School students were killed Thursday morning in Southern California when their vehicle was struck by a suspected drunken driver while they were enjoying their spring break, a sister of one victim said.
The rumor mill churns, internal candidates emerge and private conversations between School Board members and prospective job-seekers raise eyebrows. It’s all part of the hyper-political process that leads to a new superintendent.
On Education columnist Amelia Pak-Harvey reflects on her move two years ago from Massachusetts — which loves to tout itself as best state in the nation for public education — to Nevada, where education often seems like an afterthought.
Las Vegas students gathered Thursday for one of several sign-making events held this week in preparation for Saturday’s event, one of the many sibling marches slated as part of the national March for Our Lives movement.
Forty-two Clark County schools have solar panel installations that save the district roughly $514,000 per year in energy costs. But proponents of an all-solar solution say it could save many millions more over the long haul.
A group of students at Valley High School walked out of school on Thursday, the day after a student-led school assembly on National School Walkout Day .