Twenty-eight schools in the county received grants this year to grow vegetables on their campuses. The program aims to offer students at high-poverty Title I schools lessons on healthy food choices.
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.
D’Andre Burnett has attended six schools since the sixth grade, and he is not alone. More than one-quarter of students in the school district change schools at some point during the year, posing a difficult challenge for educators.
There are lessons in the turnaround at French Elementary School, the principal says: Building trust with students and making them accountable for improving their academic performance bears fruit.
No children were on board when the bus collided with a blue minivan on Route 169, near the intersection with Lyman Street.
Teachers, students and other members of the Fund Our Future Nevada campaign stressed the need for public awareness of the issues, noting that while recent investments are helpful, they’re not enough.
Clark County School District Police Capt. Ken Young said officers were dispatched to the Las Vegas school, at 2501 Winwood St., at about 2 p.m. and were still on the scene.
Rumors are swirling, as the movers and shakers watch on the sidelines to see who gets crowned king or queen of the nation’s fifth-largest public school district.
The Clark County School Board on Thursday took no action to move forward in a process to pursue alternative energy services after hearing a presentation from NV Energy, which faces competition from a proposed solar project.
Nicole Rourke, associate superintendent of community and government relations, will leave her post next week to serve as a deputy administrative services director with the city, a spokeswoman for the district confirmed.
Board votes 5-2 to raise the minimum base salary for the next district superintendent to $320,000, up from Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky’s current salary of $280,788.
There are now four separate initiatives to improve the performance of the district’s lagging schools, and some may end being enrolled up in all of them.
The district is currently short about 18 mental health care providers for the district’s students, in large part because the salaries aren’t commensurate with their level of education.
After over an hour of impassioned public comments that intensified an already highly emotional discussion, the Clark County School Board delayed a decision on whether to craft a controversial gender-diverse policy until Feb. 8.
Elections that end next month will select the president, vice president and six representatives on the local teacher union’s executive board, as well as six seats representing the local on the Nevada State Education Association board of directors.
A high school student with a long disciplinary history was expelled from a school where he was accused of rape and other serious crimes. So why was he allowed to attend another traditional school?
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