The Clark County School Board voted unanimously during a Thursday meeting in Boulder City to approve a yearly report that outlines how the nearly $778 million is being spent.
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.
A tuberculosis investigation is underway involving a person with active TB who was on 26 Clark County School District campuses and at a district training center.
College and university faculty members across the state called for emergency campus security upgrades in response to the fatal UNLV shooting.
Shushan Sadjadi — who was a math teacher at Garside Junior High School from October 2021 until August — filed a 58-page complaint Tuesday in District Court.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board heard an update on TEACH Las Vegas’ operations on Friday.
A gunman killed three people and seriously injured a fourth at UNLV’s campus. The shooting began inside Beam Hall, which houses the Lee Business School.
The College of Southern Nevada’s Mariachi Plata earned first place for a third consecutive year at the 2023 Mariachi Extravaganza last week in San Antonio, Texas.
In a Friday news release, the Uvalde Foundation For Kids said it plans to deploy patrol teams to areas around Rancho High School and other Clark County School District campuses.
The state Legislature appropriated $14 million for charter school transportation funding over the next two years.
Nevada’s Board of Regents voted to authorize a cost of living adjustment for professional employees and a 5 percent fee increase for students.
The Clark County School District filed a motion to dismiss in a teachers union lawsuit that aims to overturn a ban on public employee strikes.
Amplus Academy, a public charter school in southwest Las Vegas, offers an emergency medical technician class through a partnership with a paramedic institute.
The website, unveiled by the Clark County School District and a number of nonprofits, offers resources for parents to get kids more excited about going to school.
Some Las Vegas Valley schools are using free programs through Let Grow, a national nonprofit organization that works to promote childhood independence and free play.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal filed a public records request July 31 seeking classroom teacher vacancy numbers by campus. The district released the information in November.
