The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District will launch the offering at 16 library branches. Starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, library patrons can pick up materials they’ve requested.
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.
The school district’s $17 million Human Capital Management System was rolled out in early January. Issues with the software affected thousands of teachers, who didn’t receive their full pay.
Former Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian and former Regent Bret Whipple are running in the June 9 primary election for the higher education system’s board of regents, which will be conducted by mail-in ballot only.
Byron Brooks, Lachelle Fisher, Swadeep Nigam and Stephen Silberkraus are facing off during the June 9 primary election for the NSHE Board of Regents District 3
Three candidates — Patrick Boylan, Kevin Child and Nick “Doc” Spirtos — are running in District 5 during the June 9 primary election to replace the late Regent Sam Lieberman, whose name will still appear on the ballot.
Despite the difficulties of the switch to online learning, Nevada colleges realize they cannot return to the pre-pandemic status quo when in-person teaching returns.
The college postponed its spring graduation ceremony because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Students expressed support for a delayed in-person ceremony rather than an online one.
In November, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan for a permanent campus funded by about $150 million in donations.
Three people were displaced from a northwest Las Vegas home after a garage fire Saturday afternoon.
Grants will range from $200 to $1,000, depending on the number of credit hours students are enrolled in and their expected family contribution on the FAFSA form.
In the latest step in a nearly three-year legal battle, a Henderson electric company is seeking a permanent injunction in court against its neighbor — the owner of property under lease to Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas.
The plan includes remote summer school and bringing additional employees back to work. It won’t begin until Gov. Steve Sisolak lifts the stay-at-home order, currently in effect until May 15.
Henderson Coalition for Responsible Government, a group formed by local residents, organized a car parade protest Saturday at the Henderson Pavilion.
When the senior prom at Desert Oasis High School in southwest Las Vegas was canceled, school officials and parents organized Friday night’s drive-through prom parade.
Originally, the private Catholic school was slated to hold graduation May 17, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
