Some Clark County School District parents wonder if it’s worth transitioning to in-person classes late in the school year. Others want students in class as soon as possible.
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.
Two UNLV engineering students won the university’s senior design competition last month with a timely project — a microwave for COVID-19 disinfection.
Students in first through 12th grades in Southern Nevada can be nominated by April 9. Winners will be announced May 26 during a virtual awards show and in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Inoculations of front-line health care workers at the region’s universities and colleges would begin a week after schools in some areas began giving shots to similar workers.
The Henderson college, which has about 7,100 students, announced Tuesday it will suspend its “nonpayment policy” during spring semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Clark County School District has used fully distance education since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are other large school districts doing?
Mackey iLead Academy for the Digital Sciences in North Las Vegas this year became the only kindergarten through eighth-grade campus in the Clark County School District.
The state’s medical schools are seeing growing interest — as measured by applications for admission — during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Four Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School sophomores will receive $25,000 to travel to Ethiopia and create a community garden after winning a national contest.
Five of the state’s seven degree-granting schools saw a decline in students for the fall semester, which wrapped up this month. The exceptions: UNLV and Nevada State College.
The university recognized spring and winter graduates during two virtual ceremonies Tuesday, which were aired on YouTube amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents’ budget reduction response committee met Friday to hear presentations about system funding sources and shared services.
Despite rising COVID-19 case rates, the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority will continue allowing some in-person classes in counties with elevated virus transmission.
LIBERTY Dental Plan of Nevada announced Thursday it will open a clinic with the UNLV School of Dental Medicine in January.
Clark County announced it will air Clark County School Board meetings — beginning with a Thursday night meeting — on Clark County Television (CCTV).
