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Meghin Delaney
Reporter: Immigration
Email: mdelaney@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0281
Meghin Delaney covers immigration for the Review-Journal. She joined the staff in December 2016 after working for the Bradenton Herald in Bradenton, Florida, and The Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, New York. A graduate of Syracuse University, Meghin was born and raised in Massachusetts.
A Bonanza High School teacher was arrested Wednesday for allegedly making “terroristic threats,” according to Las Vegas police.
Schools that are receiving additional targeted funding to help students living in poverty or English language learners are using that money to avoid having to make deep cuts. Schools that don’t get that money aren’t so lucky.
Lawyers for an online charter school are fighting back in an effort to prevent the state’s oversight committee from shutting it down.
A dilapidated 2-acre maintenance yard for the Clark County School District will be part of North Las Vegas’ downtown revitalization plan after trustees approved a notice of intent to sell the property to the city for $750,000.
After three public hearings that drew many comments for and against, state Superintendent of Instruction Steve Canavero adopts the new state regulation and sends it to the Legislative Commission for final approval.
Clark County School District trustees agreed Thursday to the creation of a new position to handle negotiations with labor unions and advise the school board on all legal matters.
Clark County School District police are investigating the incident, which apparently occurred on Friday at Escobedo Middle School.
The department has held public hearings on the proposed regulation twice without taking action, as public comment on both sides of the issue has overwhelmed the sessions. The regulation is required under a law passed in the 2017 session.
Gubernatorial candidate Chris Giunchigliani unveiled her education plan Wednesday calling for increased teacher salaries and more base per-pupil funding statewide.
Trustees rejected a renewal of the district’s contract with the nonprofit two weeks ago, saying that the many of the teachers it places in high needs schools leave after two years.
The all-female staff of student journalists at Green Valley High School took home top honors Monday at the 42nd annual Las Vegas Review-Journal High School Journalism Awards.
Clark County schools will have to reopen their budgets and collectively make cuts to eliminate about two-thirds of a $68 million deficit in the district’s 2018-19 spending plan.
David Gardner, who sponsored the Clark County School District reorganization bill in 2015, is suspending his campaign to become a school board trustee to take a job as senior deputy in the Nevada attorney general’s office.
Since the Oct. 1 Strip shooting, 1,696 teachers at 28 Clark County schools, and all the district’s nurses and athletic trainers, have received the training, which takes about an hour.