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District E School Board incumbent Cole exits race

John Cole won’t be fighting to keep his seat on the School Board that oversees the nation’s fifth-largest system, the Clark County School District, and 308,000 students.

District says union tactics stall bargaining

An unusual battle has ignited between the Clark County School District and the teachers union, adding to an already fiery, nine-month war that sides have said will end in either 1,000 teachers layoffs or a pay freeze.

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Children practice conservation at Goddard School

To help keep the Earth clean, kids at the Goddard School in Henderson spent March learning how to conserve energy by eating without the lights on and recycling.

Students get visual take on Holocaust through classroom museum

For one day every year, Las Vegas High School history teacher Dan Robinson and his students transform a classroom at the school at 6500 E. Sahara Ave. into a Holocaust museum.

Powerlifter, 15, hopes to shatter deadlift record

Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School student Alex Giuliani is prepping for the Las Vegas Open and Southwest Regional Benchpress, Deadlift and Pushpull Championship, set for May 6 at CrossFit Las Vegas. He hopes to surpass the raw deadlift record of 460 pounds in the 13-to-15 age division for 198 pounds or under.

Lessons by day, lap dances by night for students

It doesn’t take a college education to understand that sex sells. Like it or not, UNLV students are surrounded by the temptations of Sin City and its lights, lust and liquor. And if sex sells, then stripping can surely pay the bills.

Layoffs loom as School District feels budget squeeze

Superintendent Dwight Jones on Wednesday was told to chisel away between 200 to 1,350 Clark County School District positions when the time soon comes. The School Board unanimously adopted a tentative $2.05 billion budget based on expected cost increases and diminished revenue. Board members also gave Jones the go ahead to make any “necessary reductions in force.”

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