Students in Clark County joined young Americans around the country Wednesday by walking out of class to honor victims of last month’s mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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.
In a policy change to help police track down the source of threats, a recording will instead instruct callers to unblock their phones by pressing *82 before calling back.
High school and college students expected to walk out of classes as part of a national event to remember the victims of last month’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and call attention to school safety and gun laws.
Critics see what they consider hardball tactics by the district as a waste of taxpayer dollars in hopes of exhausting the plaintiffs’ finances.
The Clark County School Board will hear from the public once more before deciding whether instruct the superintendent to draft a new policy and regulation for gender-diverse students.
Recent Clark County School District meetings on a gender-diverse policy drew big crowds, but public discussions of the superintendent search or the recent budget deficit were sparsely attended.
In the wake of a memo that warned of possible repercussions for students who participate, the district on Friday expressed support for those who participate in preapproved demonstrations.
All 11 superintendents in the school district’s 62-year history have been men, a fact that could weigh on the minds of School Board members as they search for a new superintendent this spring.
Alleged threats by 17-year-old against Sunrise Mountain High School in northeast Las Vegas is latest incident in a surge of menacing behavior by students in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkfield, Florida.
The North Las Vegas team’s top 18 students will compete next in the western nationals tournament of the National Archery in Schools Program in Utah in April.
Rallies are planned at six Las Vegas Valley schools for March 14 to demand change to prevent school shootings. But like adults, the students have different ideas on how that could be accomplished.
The Clark County School Board once again delays a vote on whether to craft a policy on how to address the needs of gender-diverse students, sparking backlash at individual trustees from people on both sides of the controversial debate.
The protest at Silverado High School came days after the Clark County School District warned that students will face consequences if they participate in a national student walkout scheduled next month.
Scores of hands shot into the air Tuesday afternoon at Whitney Elementary School as the question came. “Who wants a bike?”
The Palo Verde High School social studies teacher worked in both the public and private sectors before heeding the call of the classroom. Yet it’s there that his friends and family say he made the biggest impact.