A trust task force in March developed a four-step program for testing and risk management for CCSD employees. But so far it lacks funding to implement it.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
Email: jgreener@reviewjournal.com
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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.
The reopening plan for the upcoming school year resembles Clark County’s proposal in some ways but calls for elementary school students to attend classes full time.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday that students with an F-1 academic visa or M-1 vocational visa can’t take online-only classes during the fall semester.
Earlier this month, 14 graduates from St. George’s University arrived in Nevada — 11 of whom are in the Las Vegas Valley — to start their residency.
Nitia Hall filed the lawsuit June 25 in Clark County District Court. Her child, who has an intellectual disability, went missing in 2018 from Fremont Middle School in Las Vegas.
The CCSD board of trustees voted June 25 to award an approximately $25.7 million construction contract to Roche Constructors for a school near Chapata Drive and Casady Hollow Avenue.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinics had been closed since March 23 for nonemergency visits. The school is holding off on seeing new patients until fall.
The services provided by Hazel Health will be offered at no cost to students, with parent or guardian consent. There’s no limit on the number of visits students can receive.
State data shows 14 licensed child care providers in Nevada have permanently closed since the beginning of March, though it’s unclear how many were triggered by the pandemic.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority decided Friday that each individual school it sponsors will develop its own reopening plan for the upcoming school year.
Hoggard and Tate elementary schools are being rebuilt, and both projects are slated for completion by Aug. 1, 2021. Students will be temporarily relocated for the upcoming school year.
Kelsie Ballas filed the complaint against the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents on June 17 in Washoe County District Court.
More than 4,700 Nevada teaching licenses are set to expire within the next four months, the Department of Education said Monday.
Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer Jr. started on June 1, the Henderson-based university said. He was previously at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami.
The Board of Regents voted Thursday to hire Melody Rose, a higher education consultant who was previously chancellor of the Oregon University System.
