The Review-Journal visited Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas’ Centennial Hills campus in northwest Las Vegas on Tuesday for a glimpse into how the school is operating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Students from UNLV, College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College are staffing education “point of dispensing” sites and administering the vaccine to the public.
Martin Luther King Jr. should not be “someone who is unapproachable and who exists in this theoretical place,” says Mike Lang, a technology teacher at Dearing Elementary School.
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara provided an update Thursday on the district’s plan to reopen schools to preschool through third grade students on March 1.
The community college, which has three Las Vegas Valley campuses, announced Wednesday it will check out laptop computers to full-time students who began their studies in fall 2020.
For the first time in 60 years, a Nevada teacher is one of four finalists for the national 2021 award.
While some Clark County educators received their first doses of the vaccine last week, many others met with disappointment during a confusing rollout.
The Clark County School District has identified a person who gained access to online learning platform and used it post “inappropriate messages.”
The Clark County Education Association says it has filed a complaint with the state alleging that trustee Lisa Guzman has conflicts of interest related to her employment.
In a memo to employees Tuesday, the Clark County School District said employees who sign up earlier could be turned away or rescheduled at vaccination sites.
The group is expected to meet for the first time in early February, the Nevada System of Higher Education announced Tuesday.
Faith Lutheran, a private school in Las Vegas, welcomed most of its students back to campus full time last week.
About 200 UNLV students are part of the contact tracing team, which assists the Southern Nevada Health District.
Nominations for the awards, presented by The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and funded by The Rogers Foundation, can be submitted by 5 p.m. Feb. 12.
Dean Gould, who drew attention when he accused a Nevada regent of engaging in “child speak,” retired as of Dec. 31. it was not clear if his controversial remarks were connected to his departure.
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