The Nevada System of Higher Education announced Monday the five recipients of the 2023 Distinguished Nevadan award.
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 school’s new name — Nevada State University — will take effect July 1. That’s contingent on state law changes passing during the legislative session.
In late January, the Clark County School Board approved a $274,310 purchasing award to Public Consulting Group for the study.
The Clark County School Board will consider approving a $5.45 million settlement Thursday with parents who alleged that a teacher hit their autistic child with a stick.
Nevada was among more than 30 U.S. states and territories that reached a $438.5 million settlement in September with Juul Labs.
Evelyn Garcia Morales, 39, moved to the Las Vegas Valley as a teenager. After being elected in November 2020 to the Clark County School Board, she was named president in January.
The Clark County School Board has faced criticism for allowing comments on non-action items only at the end of meetings.
Trustees voted Monday to approve attendance zone changes in Henderson, northwest Las Vegas and Indian Springs that will take effect next school year.
The Clark County School Board heard an update Thursday from THT Health, which insures about 34,000 people — licensed professionals and their family members.
Superintendents and the state’s charter authority must appear at a meeting within 30 days to detail how they’d use the proposed funding, officials say.
“A teacher doesn’t lose their free speech rights just because they work at a public school,” Brett Gilman’s attorney Maggie McLetchie told the Review-Journal.
Nearly three-quarters of Nevada children ages 5 and younger don’t have access to a licensed child care provider, according to the report.
Superintendent Jesus Jara said Monday that he is directing school police to conduct a “complete review” of their use-of-force policy and protocols.
The Clark County School District project includes work on 9 million square feet of fields — primarily, soccer, baseball and softball — over the next six years.
In a written statement, the department said the recorded incident stemmed from an investigation into a report of a firearm near a school.
