Education
Eric Boe is one of NASA’s top astronauts. The pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery was on hand to give a presentation to students Jan. 11 at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy, 8200 W. Tropical Parkway, where he spoke about his experiences and answered students’ questions.
“We need your help.” That is the Clark County School District’s stance. The district launched the Watch Us Grow campaign and website this month in conjunction with Superintendent Dwight Jones’ State of the District address Jan. 5 at Chaparral High School.
Eleven students at Hyde Park finished in the top 1 percent in the Mathematical Association of America’s American Mathematics Contest 8, an international competition held in November. One Hyde Park student, Ian Johnson, got a perfect score for the second year in a row. Hyde Park is one of the Clark County School District’s magnet schools.
Looking back on it now, it is easy to see the connections between the events that ultimately allowed a 24-year-old college student to save her grandfather’s life.
The formula used to distribute state money to Nevada’s colleges and universities is broken. Everyone’s been saying that for years. This year, higher education Chancellor Dan Klaich wants to fix it.
For kids new to the country and the English language, a 3,000-student high school and class sizes of 40 to 50 probably do not make for the most effective learning environment. A small campus in the Sunrise area caters especially to such students.
Something changes when students with disabilities make the transition from high school to college. The burden of education shifts from school to student. That point was made clear for about 500 college-bound seniors with learning disabilities, as the Clark County School District’s Student Support Services Division hosted three days of workshops at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Dozens of children leap and shuffle on the playground before gathering into lines under a crisp blue sky as the school day begins.
The school bus heads toward the country’s eighth-most dangerous neighborhood, D Street west of Interstate 15, carrying 16 students from Faith Lutheran Junior/Senior High School.
Innovations International Charter School received a six-year renewal of its charter from the Clark County School Board on Thursday.
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