U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack toured the school garden at Wynn Elementary School and highlighted child nutrition initiatives.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
Email: jgreener@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-2921
Julie joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in July 2019 as a reporter for The View, covering the southwest/Henderson area. She grew up in southern California, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. She worked as an education and health reporter at the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho for eight years. Before that, she was an education and county government reporter for two years at the Elko Daily Free Press in Elko, Nev.
The Nevada Faculty Alliance said it’s “deeply angered by repeated anti-transgender comments” that Regent Patrick Boylan made during a meeting.
A national search for a new permanent superintendent could take an estimated three to six months and cost between $60,000 and $100,000.
The Nevada Board of Regents voted on Friday to approve a new contract for Keith Whitfield. He’ll remain on the job through late August 2028.
Communities In Schools of Nevada, a nonprofit dropout prevention organization, now serves nearly 40 more schools compared with four years ago.
Students at nearly a dozen Clark County School District campuses — primarily, in North Las Vegas and Henderson — will see changes to attendance boundaries next school year.
RoAnn Triana — currently region one superintendent for the Clark County School District — will be the chief of human resources.
The four-year “Warrior Pathway Program” aims to provide about $4.5 million in trade school scholarships funded by the Engelstad Foundation.
As the market leader and vice president for Cox Communications in Las Vegas, Uthman said her goal is to help eliminate the digital divide in underserved communities.
The university celebrated Friday the opening of its newest facility on campus — the Advanced Engineering Building. Classes will be held in the building this fall.
The Clark County Education Association teachers union filed a motion in District Court saying that since contract negotiations have resolved, penalties are no longer necessary.
Jesus Jara, who has been the Clark County School District’s superintendent since 2018, announced in late January that he intends to leave the position. His last day on the job will be Friday.
Communities In Schools of Nevada said it will receive a five-year federal grant to expand services at six Nevada schools, two of them in Clark County.
The Clark County School District won’t pay for a number of programs, including Care Solace, next school year after federal COVID-19 relief money dries up.
The Nevada System of Higher Education plans to use The Registry, a higher education executive placement firm, to choose an acting president for one year.
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