The two-fer grads attended the College of Southern Nevada High School program, which enabled them to earn college credits while also completing high school coursework.
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.
Tesla signed 15 more high school graduates from Clark County to work at its Gigafactory, offering employment, benefits and higher education.
Numerous local high schools, particularly those that are academically competitive, are featuring more than one No. 1 as they bid farewell to the classes of 2019.
Cassandra Sosa, a senior at Chaparral High School, submitted the winning design that will adorn a wall at Cicis pizzeria, where they officers were eating when attacked.
The union representing Clark County School District support staff and the Teamsters may be close to ending their battle over representation of the roughly 12,000 employees.
The Clark County School District says it cannot pay for its own safety improvements following the Legislature’s decision to slash the school safety budget last week.
The mother of four students at Sierra Vista High School received a used Cadillac at a senior awards ceremony, which replaced the old, often-broken car she had been using.
More than 3,000 graduate and undergraduate students from UNLV, including a Route 91 shooting survivor, received degrees Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The past week in Carson City taught us that you can’t promise the world without the tools to deliver. And so far, Nevada lawmakers don’t have the funds to fix public education.
A video shows the male Palo Verde High School student singing lyrics from a profanity-laced song that uses racial slurs in its chorus.
Rabbi Craig Rosenstein was shocked to learn that his daughter, an Escobedo Middle School student, had found a note with a swastika and a menacing message on her desk.
Graduation season begins Wednesday in the Clark County School District with a ceremony at the Stewart School for special education students.
Safety efforts will include increased police patrols, weapons searches by K-9 officers in at least two schools a day and random weapons searches in at least one.
School psychologist Katherine Dockweiler and Douglas County School District Superintendent Teri White will join the board as parent and superintendent representatives.
Broken slides. Gaping cracks. Entire areas fenced off from children. Scenes of disrepair are common at the Clark County School District’s roughly 700 playgrounds.