Teachers returning to the classroom may again be working under unnerving conditions as their union and the Clark County School District face off in arbitration.
Education
More than 100 middle school students from across the Las Vegas Valley attended Henderson Summer July 9 through Aug. 10 at The Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain. Sponsored by GB Henderson Education, the program taught kids about the food industry.
The Clark County School District will be starting school Monday with a shortage of teachers and class size increases. Regardless, Superintendent Dwight Jones and new Deputy Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky expect improvements in state standardized test scores and the district’s graduation rate.
A conservative think tank failed Monday in its quest to erase a question for increasing property taxes from the November ballot.
Monte Bay hasn’t heard much, but what he suspects gnaws at the back of his mind.
Seven-year-old Kayana Benson can go on and on about her friend Avery’s cool purple top that makes the shape of a butterfly. She got it at Target. It’s “really cute.” And, did she mention it looks like a butterfly?
Teacher orientation happens at the start of every school year, but the conversations are a little different after a year of budget upheaval that ended in layoffs. High-demand teachers in subjects such as math feel a little security that other teachers do not.
Students from 34 schools gathered Wednesday for the Clark County School District’s first summer graduation ceremony. The 314 seniors in caps and gowns made up their high school work in proficiency-exam boot camps and through credit-recovery tutoring to earn diplomas in August.
Clark County schools would receive more money, and other Nevada schools would receive less, if legislators follow through on a consultant’s suggestion to make state education funding more equitable.
University of Notre Dame student Caitlin Crommett started DreamCatchers, a nonprofit group that grants final wishes for senior citizens in hospice care, in California as a high school student. Now she’s looking to expand the club to schools and hospices in the Las Vegas Valley.
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