Here’s a head scratcher. Helen Chandler pays $375 a month in tuition for her son to attend kindergarten at an ordinary public school, Allen Elementary School in the northwest valley. She drives 20 minutes one way just to get him there. The bus isn’t an option because the family lives outside the school’s zone.
There’s a young woman over here chopping chives, a guy behind her making salad, a guy next to him getting started on the white chocolate mousse, another woman preparing the asparagus that will go with the chicken.
Fashion students from six local high schools are scheduled to strut their stuff on the Fashion Show mall’s runway at 2 p.m. Saturday as part of the Junior League of Las Vegas’ Fashion Forward: Prom Party Fashion Challenge.
Caroline Bass sinks behind a mountain of markers and student artwork and watches as her charter school is disassembled Thursday.
Megan Pineda, 12, of Reno, spelled “jovicentric” correctly Saturday, putting an end to four rounds of head-to-head competition with Jake Gottschalk at Faith Lutheran Junior/Senior High School.
CARSON CITY — A $125,000 study to examine whether Nevada’s method of funding education adequately serves the state’s diverse student population was authorized Friday by a legislative subcommittee.
The teachers union has suspended its joint ventures with the Clark County School District in an escalating public relations battle over contract terms, according to two recent union letters to the superintendent and School Board.
There will be winners and losers under higher education Chancellor Dan Klaich’s effort to rewrite how the state’s colleges and universities are funded, he told the system’s governing Board of Regents on Friday.
A new domed football stadium on UNLV’s campus could be finished in five years, cost as much as $500 million and seat up to 60,000 people, according to a briefing given to higher education leaders Thursday.
Chancellor Dan Klaich today outlined his plan to rewrite how the state’s colleges and universities are funded. Faculty, administrators and students told the Legislature’s Committee to Study the Funding of Higher Education the current funding formula is inadequate.
