Solar panels have been installed on the rooftops and in the parking lot of the Desert Research Institute in Reno.
Education
Charges were dropped against two Clark County School District teachers accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, but they and the district now face a federal civil lawsuit brought by the girl’s family.
Two local school officials who acknowledged illegally spending taxpayer dollars on a bond campaign survived a state investigation with no penalty, but the Clark County School District’s head attorney is now under review by the State Bar of Nevada for advising them they could do so.
Students one nudge away from dropping out will go to teacher Rodney Ball’s class but skip all others.
Nevada State Bank is launching a “Beautiful Nevada Essay Contest” asking the state’s students to answer the question, “What Makes Nevada Beautiful to You?”
Antonio was released from CCDC in August and now attends Rancho High School as a senior. He said last week that he feels “out of place” back at school, but he shares something with a growing number of Clark County students. He’s homeless.
A male inmate convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City on Wednesday.
Clark County prosecutors slapped former Wengert Elementary School teacher Melvyn Sprowson with four new charges of unlawful use of a minor in production of pornography after authorities found images of a 16-year-old girl on her cell phone.
Jeffrey Hinton, a history teacher at Northwest Career and Technical Academy, was honored as Nevada’s 2014 Michael Landsberry Teacher of the Year on Wednesday.
Former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley is taking on a new job as CEO and senior provost of the Touro College and University System in Nevada and California.
UNLV freshman Chanhee Shin doesn’t use the school’s Academic Success Center and isn’t happy about having to pay more next year so it can expand its services.
The only class of felony sex offenders in Nevada not required to register in a national database are school employees and volunteers convicted of having sexual relations with their students who are younger than age 18.
The Automated Sports Ball Launcher won grand prize in the fall 2003 Senior Design Competition at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The Clark County School District will have $41 million more in resources than expected for the 2013-14 school year due largely to sales tax collections exceeding predictions.
Clark County’s crowded elementary schools already use 1,282 portable classrooms, but new state standards are forcing the district to request $13.5 million from the state so it can add hundreds more.
