“Work remains to be compliant with the law,” State Superintendent Steve Canavero said Thursday on a conference call. “We have gotten so much further together when we put heads together.”
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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.
The Clark County School District will have another set of eyes on its books after a state committee put the cash-strapped public school system on a financial watch list.
School officials were tipped off to the threats by the 14-year-olds on Jan. 22 and immediately contacted school police, according to a message sent to parents Monday by West Career and Technical Academy’s principal.
The training is designed to spell out what the district considers appropriate interactions with students and help cut down the number of district employees arrested on sexual misconduct charges.
“The blacktop is not safe. Kids slip, fall and get hurt badly,” the students wrote in a letter to Clark County school trustees, urging the district to fix the crumbling blacktop field blamed for 150 abrasions so far this school year.
State Public Charter Authority approves two new campuses and adjusts a start date for another school, as Nevada’s independent schools remain “one of the fastest-growing sectors in the country.”
The annual $2,500 scholarships, offered through a partnership between the Public Education Foundation and Macy’s, will go to students studying to become first responders and dependents of current first responders.
More than 1,800 students, teachers and families gathered at Artemus Ham Hall on the UNLV campus to celebrate National School Choice Week
Sebastian Crawford, 17, a senior at Rancho High School in North Las Vegas, recently became the only student in Nevada and one of just 106 nationally to earn a $25,000 Horatio Alger scholarship.
A Legacy High School senior was arrested Monday after an unloaded gun was found in his backpack.
The state teachers union has endorsed Chris Giunchigliani’s bid to be Nevada’s next governor, again putting the organization at odds with the local chapter, who endorsed fellow Democrat Steve Sisolak two weeks ago.
Kweku Turkson, 37, an English teacher at West Prep Academy, was arrested Friday by Metropolitan Police Department officers and is jailed on counts of lewdness and attempted lewdness with a minor.
The Capitol One/Junior Achievement Finance Park, set up in the Las Vegas Library, aims to help students plan for their futures by placing them in difficult financial scenarios drawn from real life.
On Thursday, the School Board is set to hear a presentation from Capital Dynamics, an independent global asset manager, to discuss “potential energy savings” of millions of dollars for the district.
Outside donations are helping fuel the biggest Republican campaign to be the next Nevada governor.