The Board of Regents will consider a name change request Sept. 9. If approved, it would take effect in July.
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 Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board voted Monday to approve Southern Nevada Trades High School, which is set to open in August 2023.
The change took effect last week and is the result of new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
Sierra Duran, a 17-year-old high school senior, is among 105 students nationwide to be named a 2023 Horatio Alger scholar.
Pennie Edmond, 74, has been teaching in the Clark County School District since 1970. She is the district’s longest-serving educator.
Construction is expected to wrap up in late October on the UNLV medical school’s first permanent facility.
The local campuses are among nearly 5,000 schools nationwide participating in Kinsa’s FLUency program, which tracks fever-related ailments.
THT Health’s open enrollment period for the 2022-23 benefit year began Aug. 3 and continues through Aug. 24. The changes take effect Oct. 1.
The Clark County School Board is set to hear information Thursday about the work, which includes more security cameras, a single point of entry and additional fencing.
Clark County School District leaders joined students, teachers and elected officials at events throughout the valley to kick off the first day of school.
About 300,000 students return to classes Monday in the Clark County School District. Here are seven things to know about the new school year in the nation’s fifth-largest district.
The Clark County School Board voted to approve a corrective action plan after being notified that the district was violating the reorganization law.
Vacancies in the Clark County School District could lead to larger class sizes, more classes covered by substitute teachers and fewer course offerings.
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey wrote in an order that parents who filed the complaint “hadn’t established a viable legal basis for their federal claims.”
The Public Education Foundation’s “superstore” provides school supplies to teachers to reduce their out-of-pocket expenses.
