Mark Ashcraft remembers the day everything changed for him. He was a young college professor grading papers.
In one class, 50 points was the total possible. If a kid missed 7, he got a 43. It took no time to figure that out. The answer was virtually instinctive.
Four applicants have come forward to temporarily fill a Clark County School Board seat, which already has seen two representatives come and go within the four-year term.
A former head softball coach at Silverado High School in Henderson has been indicted on multiple felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child and transporting child pornography.
Kristol Holmes passed all her classes with B’s and C’s and was rarely absent. But she’s back in school this summer because one test still holds her diploma captive. Three other seniors were in her classroom, and 1,256 others are in schools across the Clark County School District.
One out of every five Nevada children lives in poverty, according to the 2011 installment of an annual report that tracks the well-being of children. The increase is a marked one from 2001, when one out of 10 children lived in poverty.
Ensemble Arts Academy, 4040 N. Tenaya Way, has seen its summer program grow from a handful of students to a total of nearly 50. This year marks the fifth anniversary of the facility’s Camp Rocks! Summer Music Day-Camp.
Last school year, the Clark County School District launched an unprecedented campaign to intervene with credit-deficient high school seniors, nearly half of whom were on track to not graduate. The district identified more than 7,000 seniors in academic trouble and implemented programs to help them catch-up on credits and prepare for the state proficiency exam.
Hyde Park is one of the top-performing middle schools in the Clark County School District. After 55 years of use, it is also one of the oldest. Hyde Park is one of 19 schools in line for “major modernization” if voters approve a property tax rate increase Nov. 6.
A UNLV team is researching ways to combat American foulbrood disease: a widespread, destructive illness affecting honeybees. The team is working on a virus to kill American foulbrood bacteria in infected beehives.
The Nevada State Education Association describes it as “union busting at its finest,” but the conservative think tank that emailed 12,000 Clark County School District teachers Friday about the summer drop period for union members contends its purpose was simply informational.
Clark County school students challenged to make the grade achieved something rare last school year.
