For the second year in a row, Nevada’s performance on Advanced Placement exams was highlighted in an annual report by the College Board for showing one of the biggest increases year over year.
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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.
Nevada Virtual Academy and Quest Preparatory Academy both received “notices of intent to terminate” Friday from a state oversight board, but they have an opportunity to continue operating by submitting a turnaround plan.
The school district, which hasn’t had a fatal shooting on campus since 1990, uses layers of armed officers, surveillance cameras and student and staff training to help keep its 358 district campuses safe.
Suzanna Raygoza-Rosen, 34, was arrested Tuesday after the family of a 6-year-old boy at Cunningham Elementary School complained about injuries in November.
The Saville Middle School student reported a white male in his 60s and driving a red, four-door car tried lure him about 8:30 a.m., near Torrey Pines and Horse drives, Metropolitan Police Department spokesmen Larry Hadfield said. The incident was called into police about 8:45 a.m.
About 20 of the original airmen are still alive now, Porter told the students. Many of them are nearly 100 years in age. In 2006, under then-President George W. Bush, the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Golden Knights — along with NV Energy, the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association — are helping to start the Golden Knights Hockey Academy Program.
The New York-based public charter school brings new approaches to struggling Las Vegas charter school, including Korean language classes and zero tolerance for “D” grades.
A new state rule, announced in October, is allowing thousands of former students who didn’t graduate high school a chance at a diploma. As of Jan. 22, more than 9,500 former students had applied for the retroactive diplomas.
Renee Rine, 36, a math teacher at West Career and Technical Academy, also tried to arrange trysts in a hotel and her home during a three-year pursuit of the teen, an arrest report states.
Project Lead the Way is a nonprofit organization that develops science, technology, engineering and math — referred to as STEM — curricula for schools. Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas, a charter school, is the only elementary school in the area offering the program.
Clark County public school students swept the top spots at a regional science competition, and a team from Clark High School will represent the area at nationals in April.
The school district reorganization law mandated early planning as part of its push to move budgeting to the local level, but the state isn’t required to provide funding levels for one key program until after the schools’ deadline.
Roger Brown, the former longtime athletic director at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas, was sentenced to serve at least three years in prison for production of pornography involving a minor and sexual contact with a pupil.
Former board member, educator, and principal is remembered for “always standing for what was best for children even if she had to stand alone.”