Thirty-two students from a Beijing-area school shadowed Coronado High School students every day last week, joining them for activities and sports, marking what officials gather is the first instance of the Clark County School District hosting a group of students from the communist country.
A proposed Las Vegas charter school where students would learn Latin, read original Constitution documents and be required to acquire more credits to graduate than other schools won unanimous approval Friday by the state Public Charter School Authority.
The longtime Henderson resident and educator Harriet Treem was known for her dedication to students, a reputation that also led to her becoming the namesake of a Henderson elementary school.
A Utah school teacher is trying to drum up support for a proposal to honor educators who die while protecting students, citing a Nevada teacher’s death in a school shooting this week.
College students in Nevada who have accumulated excess credits but have failed to complete their degrees will pay the price beginning next fall. That’s when an excess credit fee approved last November by the state’s Board of Regents will go into effect.
A story printed in Tuesday’s Review-Journal about excess credit fees that will take effect next fall for Nevada college students should have said the fee at community colleges kicks in at 90 credits.
State Superintendent of Public Schools Dale Erquiaga and Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky were at the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy Monday night to discuss the education of Nevada’s least academically successful student demographic.
Faculty at Nevada’s community colleges might see a paycheck increase in early 2014 after years of budget cuts that brought them salary reductions and unpaid days off. The adjustments are mainly due to a new salary schedule that was adopted by the state’s Board of Regents earlier this year.
Scholars Working OverTime uses old school techniques to make learning stick for its dedicated students, and a campaign called Indiegogo gives them hope for a computer lab to take the next leap forward.
The Sparks Middle School student who killed a teacher and wounded two classmates before turning the gun on himself appeared to be a typical 12-year-old who liked soccer, was good at video games and didn’t have a lot of friends but “didn’t seem to be a loner,” a friend said Friday.
Students soon will have to take state-required tests online instead of on paper. That will cost money, so the Clark County School District is applying for $3.35 million from a state educational technology fund to make that happen over the next two years. Clark County School Board members unanimously agreed Thursday to send the application to the Nevada Department of Education seeking the financial aid.
South-central Las Vegas won’t be represented on the Clark County School Board until at least Dec. 5 because of the abrupt resignation of Lorraine Alderman, who gave six days’ notice and a vague explanation for her sudden departure.
Seven Clark County School District employees have been subpoenaed in the state’s growing investigation of a Las Vegas school where student test scores rose dramatically in 2011-12, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
Everything about it screamed political rally, except the screams themselves. High-pitched shrieks erupted not from fervent voters and die hard party-liners, but from 2,000 fifth- and seventh-graders. Similar to a political party’s rally, they gathered to take a stand on school policies from dress codes to whether they should be forced to eat healthy lunches and the effectiveness of student suspensions.
A procession of priests, nuns, Knights of Columbus and parishioners followed the bishop Sunday morning as he led them from Mass to the fledgling Catholic school next door.
