To track school spending, the Review-Journal examined more than 420 audits that covered around 350 schools. These are some of the problems that CCSD auditors found during their reviews of campus finances.
Education
The Clark County School District says it is implementing some new rules to protect students and make classrooms more productive when classes start Aug. 12.
A new CCSD policy requiring students to put their cellphones in signal-blocking pouches during class has faced pushback, most recently with a petition drive that gathered 10,000 signatures in three days.
Former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones Blackhurst is helping to develop a new program at UNLV that will help women in their efforts to enter the corporate C-suite.
The Clark County School Board voted against appealing a court ruling that ordered the district to rescind a policy limiting the powers of its four nonvoting trustees.
Outgoing Superintendent Jesus Jara gave his top officials millions of dollars in additional benefits while keeping the information from elected school board trustees.
The university’s fifth annual nursing camp is a weeklong summer session for students interested in the medical field.
St. Jude’s has teamed up with the Clark County School District to offer what’s believed to be the first school of its kind in the nation, serving those who have been victims of sex trafficking.
The ACS Foundation works to provide academic and college preparation to low- and middle-class Nevadans seeking to apply to elite universities or programs.
Critics said the district should wait until new trustees are sworn in later this year to recruit a superintendent. As many as four trustees could be replaced in November’s election.
UNLV Police Services arrested a man who was reported to have been carrying a concealed weapon on campus.
Clark County School District students can be vaccinated at several Southern Nevada Health District locations across Las Vegas, Henderson and Mesquite.
Jesus Jara’s term was longer than average for superintendents in the nation’s largest districts, research shows.
Henderson City Council members voted to approve a measure that would add crossing guards to middle schools.
The Oakland Athletics’ push to intervene in a lawsuit brought on by a Nevada teachers union group challenging Senate Bill 1 was denied.