Excerpts from the first public input meeting in CCSD superintendent search, including Duncan Lee of the Council for a Better Nevada, Brent Husson, president of Nevada Succeeds, and Jerry Lee Dixon. (Amelia Pak-Harvey/ Las Vegas Review-Journal).
UNLV graduate students spent a week writing their dissertations during a new writing boot camp hosted by the university. Natalie Bruzda/Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Sunny Lee received a perfect score of 36 the second time she took the ACT college entrance exam. The 17-year-old Bishop Gorman High School student was happy. But she was still signed up to take the SAT in December, so she studied for a bit and took that, too. She walked away with another perfect score of 1600. –Sunny Lee
On Jan. 15, State Superintendent of Instruction Steve Canavero will issue a ruling whether the Clark County School District is following the reorganization law. He doesn’t expect they will be found in compliance. Here’s one of the major reasons why: The law says school should benefit from “attrition savings.” When a school can’t hire a full-time teacher and has to hire a substitute, they’re saving the district some money, because substitutes cost less. That money is called attrition. Historically, schools haven’t been given the money they save the district. The district has used it for other projects. That has to change, according to the law. But the district says it’s hard to “build the engine of a plane while it’s flying.” The state will likely issue a corrective action plan, laying out what the district needs to do to come into compliance.
Touro University officials demonstrate how the school’s new disaster life support center works.
UNLV NAACP and Black Lives Matter UNLV held a press conference on campus on Thursday, Nov. 30. They released a list of demands regarding a Tuesday, Nov. 28 incident on campus where seven North Las Vegas police officers drove onto campus unannounced and disrupted their poetry event. (Natalie Bruzda/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV students Hailey Brooks, from left, Diana Zeineddine, Lindsey Dovali and Alex Wong were among about a dozen students who took part in filming the first “Rebel Report” of the fall semester Oct. 12 at UNLV. (Brian Sandford/View)
A career in education wasn’t something that University of Nevada, Las Vegas professor Dr. Stephen Caplan had seriously considered when he began playing music professionally. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky announces his impending retirement amid budget deficit furor. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The budget crisis facing the Clark County School District was so easy to see coming, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky predicted it just 19 months ago. (Victor Joecks)
New chancellor for the Nevada System of Higher Education Thom Reilly talks about improving access and retention.
As the much-anticipated Clark County School District reorganization gets underway, parents are still unsure of what concrete change they’ll actually see. Jennifer Furman-Born, principal at McCaw STEAM Academy, talks about reorganization and what her school has done to move toward the school empowerment model. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Over 5,000 children and families attended the Back to School Fair, hosted by Mariana’s Supermarket at Clark High School Thursday. Proceeds from the benefit will go to Vegas PBS’ Ready To Learn Program and Described and Captioned Media Center, a free-loan educational media library for those with special needs. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Clark County School District and Cox Las Vegas partnered for their 10th annual back-to-school fair at the Galleria at Sunset mall.
UNLV students held a rally on campus to express frustration with the school in terms of inclusiveness for all minorities and the lack of funding for resources that could promote a more diverse student environment.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal spoke to UNLV students about Regent Jason Geddes’ 1995 UNR dissertation containing more than four pages of uncited, copied language from a California report.
Every year special education students from throughout the Clark County School District are welcomed to a dance in their honor at Clark High School. This year the Junior ROTC officers in training, the school’s dance and drill teams, the Nellis Honor Guard and local police, paramedics and more helped celebrate with students May 5.