The Clark County School District can’t afford a “moderate and reasonable” proposal to increase support staff wages, an independent arbitrator has ruled.
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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.
Proficiency levels on the ACT will be used as one component in new star ratings for high schools beginning this fall.
Nevada education chief says current process allows schools in affluent areas to attract most-experienced teachers to the detriment of those in poorer areas and calls for working group to devise a fairer method.
Details of the first expenditure by the company — part of a $37.5 million investment in education planned over the next five years — were announced Thursday at the State Board of Education meeting.
As new superintendent reviews policy banning him from school district facilities, controversial School Board member is accused of “threatening” confrontation that prompted female colleague to call security to her office on Monday.
She and other student-activists have spent the summer visiting dozens of cities across the country, encouraging young voters get involved as part of the March for Our Lives: Road to Change tour.
At industry’s biggest annual gathering in Las Vegas, school dietitians seek new ways to create interesting and engaging meals for students while meeting federal standards on everything from calories to sodium levels and to saturated fats.
Clark County parents and students will have online access to a lot more information about food being served for school lunch starting this fall.
The recommendations will be taken into consideration as Gov. Brian Sandoval creates a proposed biennial budget for the 2019 legislative session. But the term-limited governor’s successor will ultimately determine if any are funded.
The Clark County School Board approved a $190,000 settlement for an unnamed student and parent who sued the school district over alleged sexual harassment by a teacher nearly five years ago.
The Clark County School District will bring in outside lobbyists to represent its interests during the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature, a move that has some trustees concerned about the loyalty of the outsiders.
Supporters hope the Clark County Board of Trustees will approve naming a new elementary school opening in fall 2019 after Charleston Hartfield, a Metro officer killed while off-duty at the Route 91 country music festival shooting.
Clark County School District teachers have two weeks to decide whether they want to stick with the current union, the Clark County Education Association, or align with the upstart National Education Association of Southern Nevada.
Armed with signs, shouting chants, dressed in white and carrying water to handle the summer heat, a few hundred people gathered in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday morning to protest the Trump administration’s family separation and detention policy.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt released a school safety report Thursday, with recommendations focusing on seven different topics.