A mother said she was disappointed students in the “Program Approach to Career Employment” class did not have their pictures included in the yearbook.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
Email: jgreener@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-2921
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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.
Sarina Ali, a seventh grader at the private Omar Haikal Islamic Academy, misspelled “toluene” during round four of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday.
Of the 176 licensed employees listed as leaving the district in the May report, more than 60 are special education teachers.
Sarina Ali, sponsored by the Public Education Foundation, participated in the preliminaries Tuesday in National Harbor, Maryland.
Gov. Joe Lombardo held a signing ceremony for Assembly Bill 73. The changes go into effect immediately amid high school graduation season.
Danielle Ford, who was elected to the Clark County School Board in 2018 and lost the general election in November, hopes to launch a podcast by the beginning of June.
The Clark County School District filed a complaint May 17 against the Clark County Education Association.
Amid a teacher shortage, the nation’s fifth-largest district relies on educators from the Philippines to help cover hard-to-fill positions in elementary school, special education, and math and science.
The Nevada Senate passed Assembly Bill 282, which would require school districts to provide long-term substitute teachers with a subsidy to buy health insurance.
The state’s charter school authority board voted Friday to appoint GEMS Assistant Principal Michael Taack as the school’s trustee during the closing process.
The Clark County School Board heard a presentation Thursday on results of the study about minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
The Clark County Education Association’s representative council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday night seeking for Superintendent Jesus Jara to leave his job.
The Clark County School Board will decide Thursday whether to authorize four law firms to conduct litigation against various social media platforms.
Assembly Bill 175 would change the makeup of Clark County’s board to have elected and appointed members.
The Clark County School District campus serves students ages 3 to 22 who are medically fragile and have disabilities. The school recognized graduates on Friday.
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