The university is accepting applications for its paraprofessional pathways project, which helps those already working in schools earn a bachelor’s degree and become a licensed teacher.
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 Board heard a presentation with financial updates Thursday night from the health insurance provider for licensed employees and their family members.
The Clark County School Board approved a $9 million settlement agreement Thursday in a case involving a former special education school bus driver who was sentenced to prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting preschoolers.
The Nevada System of Higher Education announced Thursday it will no longer require face masks for students, employees or members of the public.
Students, teachers and other school employees will no longer need to wear masks following an announcement Thursday from Gov. Steve Sisolak.
The Clark County School Board will consider approving a $9 million settlement Thursday involving a former school bus driver sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting preschoolers.
In August, the State Board of Health approved an emergency measure for spring in-person classes. But the state’s Legislative Commission failed in December to adopt a permanent requirement.
A Feb. 3 letter from Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Melody Rose’s attorney wants authorization for Regent Byron Brooks to concealed carry to be immediately revoked.
The Clark County School District saw more challenges during first semester, some possibly related to students readjusting to in-person classes or other COVID-19 pandemic-related impacts.
The voluntary program began Jan. 19 — the day classes resumed after the school district’s five-day “pause” — for those exposed in a school setting to a confirmed COVID-19 case.
Christopher Bernier was selected Tuesday as the top leader of The School District of Lee County in Fort Myers, Florida, which has more than 90,000 students.
Sonia Fernandez, who works at Ferron Elementary School in Las Vegas, is among three finalists so far in Tennant Company’s “Custodians Are Key” recognition campaign.
The university’s College of Liberal Arts announced Friday it has hired Colette LaBouff, who has led New Mexico’s Taos Center for the Arts since 2018.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board voted Friday to conditionally approve a resubmitted application for Strong Start Academy Elementary School.
The Clark County School Board voted 4-3 on Thursday night to appoint Lisa Guzman to the State Board of Education’s Assembly Bill 469 subcommittee.
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