With a new school year approaching, the Clark County School District says it doesn’t have an employee COVID-19 vaccination mandate and its development “has not been necessary.”
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.
Five charter schools, tuition-free public schools that receive state funding, are opening in August in Las Vegas.
A captain with the Metro Police Department said officers would not hesitate to stop a suspect in the event of a school shooting in Clark County.
Meals will be available at drive-thru sites July 20 through Aug. 5 at 17 school parking lots, the district said in a news release.
In September 2021, the Clark County school board approved revisions to a change of school assignment policy. The upcoming school year is the first where students will be impacted.
Requirements are for children entering kindergarten, seventh and 12th grades at public and private schools, unless they have an approved religious or medical exemption.
Several organizations protested Monday outside the Galleria At Sunset over a model railroad exhibit that included a depiction of a Black man who was about to be hanged.
The Nevada State Board of Education approved a notice of intent Thursday to adopt policy revisions outlining possible consequences for noncompliance with a reorganization law.
Changes include having only a single public comment period for non-action items at the end of the meeting, and banning repeatedly disruptive people from future meetings for 30 to 180 days.
The Clark County School District is exercising its right under a collective bargaining agreement to suspend a program that allows teachers to retire a year early.
Andrew Priest will lead the private university in Henderson, which has more than 1,500 students in osteopathic medicine and other programs.
The action comes less than a year after the requirement went into effect for more than 20,000 Nevada System of Higher Education employees.
The nonpartisan policy center — which became affiliated with the University of Nevada, Reno, in July 2021 — named Dana Bennett to the role, the university announced Tuesday.
Hundreds of crossing guards are needed to serve in unincorporated Clark County, as well as Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, for the upcoming school year.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board heard a presentation Monday on the topic but didn’t take action.
