Another crop of Clark County’s worst-performing schools are seeking millions in federal aid to reboot over three years, but other schools already deep into their $8.7 million improvement grants remain far from achieving the desired “turnaround” status.
Education
The Clark County School District is taking on $34 million in new debt to buy 172 buses and about 14,000 computers.
More than two-thirds of Clark County School District sophomores failed the state’s math proficiency exam this year, a new low for first-time test-takers in recent history.
UNLV is looking at an estimate of $60,000 to $100,000 to repair water damages in a dormitory complex resulting from a fire earlier this month.
Nevada Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced their Education Priority Initiative to tax gold and silver mining to fund education, which they said will serve as a competing measure to the flawed teacher-backed margins tax that will be on the ballot in 2014.
Brian Howerton sighed as the judges named the bronze medalist at the Percussion World Championships late Friday night.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and the governor of Delaware said Monday a 4-month-old program to help at-risk high school students already has shown signs of success in Nevada.
The Clark County School Board needs to start searching for a new superintendent to run the nation’s fifth-largest school district, but it first wants to hear the public’s criteria for the new leader.
CARSON CITY — After serving the maximum six years as the president of the Nevada State Education Association, Lynn Warne will be replaced in July by Ruben Murillo Jr., current president of the Clark County Education Association.
The passage of a piece of legislation will be the trigger that would allow officials to move forward with the UNLVNow project, officials said Friday.
The state higher education’s Board of Regents on Friday opposed a bill that would add a student to the board.
Two UNLV undergraduate teams won top prizes and a total of $35,000 in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition.
The campus is quiet, deserted, as you would expect of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on an eventless Friday evening.
He spoke about everything from Nevada jobs to the National Guard, but Gov. Brian Sandoval glossed over the main subject of his Wednesday speech — education.
UNLV officials on Tuesday were optimistic about a long-delayed project to build a new home for the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration after it was heard by a joint committee in Carson City without questions or concerns.
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