Many Nevada public charter schools are aiming to use a hybrid model — a combination of in-person and distance education — when they reopen in August.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
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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.
When the new school year begins in August, students can walk or take buses to the nearest school to pick up free meals to take home, Superintendent Jesus Jara said.
Keily Martinez Mejia, now 18, alleges the school district was negligent for failing to prevent an attack at Clark High School that left her badly injured.
The NSHE Board of Regents voted Thursday to hire Keith Whitfield, currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit.
A Nevada System of Higher Education committee interviewed four finalists Wednesday at UNLV. The Board of Regents is slated to vote Thursday on who to hire.
The Moapa Valley Community Education Advisory Board says the school district’s one-size-fits-all approach to reopening school campuses doesn’t fit the needs of its rural community.
The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents will hear presentations Thursday about each school’s reopening plan but isn’t slated to take action.
A middle school is being built in the Mountain’s Edge area of southwest Las Vegas, and an elementary school is under construction in Henderson.
The university formed the 12-member task force — which includes students and employees — in early June in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.
Many private schools are planning to have students return full time to campuses in August and say they are receiving an influx of inquiries from public school parents.
The requirement is for all students for the second summer session, which began Monday, and the fall semester. Students will be quizzed on the material, the university says.
The consolidated force now overseeing security at UNLV, the College of Southern Nevada, the Desert Research Institute and Nevada State College expects to have boards in place by fall.
American Preparatory Academy Las Vegas is being sued by its parent company, American Preparatory Schools, after ending a management deal with the for-profit Utah company.
The funding — part of the federal coronavirus relief act — will allow UNLV’s Cares Food Pantry to buy food, equipment and implement a new online ordering system.
Free testing will be available on at four schools in east Las Vegas this month as part of county’s strategy to slow spread of virus in Latino community.
