Hiring events are underway this week for crossing guards, who must be at least 18 and work two hours a day.
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.
An event was scheduled for Wednesday at Ramanos Mercato Italiano in Henderson’s Inspirada community, but the property owners and business requested the event not be held there.
School crossing guards typically work one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon.
The U.S. Department of Education released state-level data Tuesday showing how many people are eligible.
The protest happened during Superintendent Jesus Jara’s “Java with Jara” community event at the Sambalatte coffee shop in northwest Las Vegas.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara said in a Tuesday email to teachers and other licensed employees that he wanted to clarify “pay and compensation questions.”
The Clark County School District said it’s adding six positions to support regional offices, and one for school choice and innovation.
The district’s hiring website lists 1,266 openings for licensed employees — a job category that includes teachers, school counselors and nurses.
Projects are planned over the next decade and are part of the Clark County School District’s 2015 Capital Improvement Program.
The Clark County School District on Thursday released a list of more than 40 schools that will lose instructional time for the upcoming school year.
The Clark County School District said the union has refused to consider contract waivers for more than six months without “additional, unreasonable concessions.”
The Clark County School District said in a statement Monday that a mandate isn’t feasible and “does not definitively address safety concerns.”
The ACLU of Nevada is seeking an order to require the school district to release records related to a police altercation near Durango High.
The Clark County School Board will consider an employment contract Thursday with Warren Shillingburg as an assistant human resources officer.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara is holding more than a dozen “Java with Jara” community meetings this month and in August.
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