Roseman University of Health Sciences and the Nevada Cancer Institute Foundation have completed a merger that will reopen the cancer institute building in Las Vegas and could lead to the creation of a medical school at the site by 2017.
Education
A center that will provide resources to businesses opened its doors on Wednesday at the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus.
A Boulder City teenager is the victim of alleged sex offenses committed by a school teacher in Arizona, several of them in his classroom at the Kingman Academy of Learning High School, according to police.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas President Neal Smatresk said Wednesday he would accept the position of president for the University of North Texas if his appointment is confirmed by the system’s Board of Regents next month.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics decided Wednesday to forgo its investigation and accept the proposed settlements of two Clark County School District officials suspected of spending taxpayer money to campaign on a ballot question in 2012 to increase property taxes for school improvements.
For the class of 2014, Clark High School had the highest number of National Merit semifinalists in Nevada — 14. It tied the Davidson Academy of Nevada, a Reno public school for profoundly gifted middle and high school students.
Four applicants, including a member of the Nevada State Board of Education, are vying for the open seat on the Clark County School Board.
A tenth of Coronado High School students and staff, or about 325 people, are at risk for contracting the potentially lethal disease tuberculosis because of their exposure to a confirmed case at the Henderson campus, according to a spokesperson for the Southern Nevada Health District
The College of Southern Nevada and the city of North Las Vegas have joined efforts to identify ways the Cheyenne campus can better serve the community.
A fifth-grade class at the school near Sahara Avenue and Interstate 15 dared the principal to read from the rooftop all day for Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! program.
Nevada State College will participate in a national pilot program that officials say will help improve the college’s first-year student retention rate and graduation numbers.
When a high school newspaper at a suburban Philadelphia football powerhouse decided the word “Redskins” had no place in its pages, the paper’s student editors found themselves called to the principal’s office.
The frozen salaries of Clark County School District’s nearly 170 police officers will be thawed, the same as was done for teachers, administrators and support staff whose contracts have already been decided for the 2013-14 school year.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused, without comment, to review a federal judgment against John Vellardita, now executive director of the Clark County teachers union, and other leaders of his former union in Oakland, Calif., which means they will have to pay $1.5 million in damages to the parent organization of United Healthcare Workers-West.
The Clark County School District is the target of a copyright lawsuit for buying a professional training book in 2009, scanning it and posting it online for anyone to download, according to a federal lawsuit filed in September by the author who discovered the reproduction.
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