About 20 teenagers at Durango High School spent their after-school hours on Valentine’s Day learning how to solder and talking via video conferencing with NASA engineers.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
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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.
The Clark County School Board will consider next week whether to accept a contract amendment that proposes a lump sum payment for departing Superintendent Jesus Jara.
Less than two weeks after submitting his resignation, CCSD Superintendent Jesus Jara sent a copy of written remarks for his yearly “State of the Schools” address — which was canceled last month — to the school board.
Students at Rogich Middle School won the division I middle/elementary school category during the fall competition, according to a Thursday news release.
Clark County Education Association Executive Director John Vellardita told the Review-Journal that the CCSD’s description of his statement as race-based discrimination was not accurate.
The public charter school’s board will consider a recommendation Feb. 27 to continue operating the high school at all grade levels, according to a letter to parents.
West Preparatory Academy celebrated a ‘Super School Meals’ initiative that will help 72 high-needs Nevada schools provide meals to its students.
The board failed a motion to approve Superintendent Jesus Jara’s resignation and a contract amendment, but later gave an OK to negotiate a contract termination
The teachers union has asked a court to force the district to turn over records after an X account under Jara’s name called a union official a “mistress.”
A lottery will be conducted to select students by May 31 if there are more applicants than available seats. Parents will be notified in early June.
The Just One Project, a nonprofit mobile food pantry, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the “Community Market at Mojave High School” in North Las Vegas.
The head of Clark County’s teachers union said the timing of Superintendent Jesus Jara’s resignation is “very suspicious” and that the union believes a scandal is brewing.
Superintendent Jesus Jara, who has been at the helm of the nation’s fifth-largest school district since 2018, has had a tumultuous tenure.
Larry and Julie Gonzales — the parents of Jeffrey Gonzales, who died at the scene of a crash in February 2022 — filed a complaint in District Court alleging negligence.
The kindergarten teacher had faced a misdemeanor charge after being removed from a Clark County School Board meeting last summer.
