The Clark County School Board approved a $1.4 million purchasing award for a company to provide primary care services for support professionals and police.
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 Clark County School District Police Department is teaching a Law Enforcement Against Drugs and Violence (L.E.A.D.) program to sixth-graders. It will add high schools next school year.
The Southern Nevada Health District announced Monday that norovirus may be the cause of an outbreak in late January at a Las Vegas elementary school.
Amid a civil war in Ethiopia, soil scientist Desta Woldetsadik Demissie applied for the prestigious Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program and was selected. His host professor is in Las Vegas.
The Clark County School Board approved a $274,310 purchasing award to Public Consulting Group last week for the study. A final report is expected in early June.
The school’s Space Force Junior ROTC is among 60 middle and high school groups nationwide to win NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara discussed school funding, teacher working conditions and other topics in his annual address.
The College of Southern Nevada wants to build a 41-acre campus in Centennial Hills, and it’s asking the state for $5.2 million in planning money.
The Nevada attorney general’s office determined that the board changed a meeting time “without providing sufficient notice to the public.”
Nevada System of Higher Education regents heard a presentation Wednesday on state audit findings, but didn’t take action.
Three legislative audits of the Nevada System of Higher Education were approved Thursday by the Legislative Commission’s Audit Subcommittee.
The topic came up Wednesday during the yearly “State of the College” address.
The Clark County School District has its own musical instrument repair shop, which has been operating for more than 20 years.
The classroom-sized market will offer families no-cost items such as groceries, recipes, household products and school supplies.
The Clark County School District has entered into a $4.9 million contract for emergency sewer and plumbing repairs at Chaparral High School.
