CCSD marks opening of new Variety School campus for special-needs students

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 | 2 a.m.

As thousands of Clark County students returned from winter break to familiar classrooms on Monday, more than 100 Variety School students had their first day back in a brand-new building. Variety, which serves about 150 special-needs students, moved into an $18 million, state-of-the-art campus on Monday. The new school, 2800 E. Stewart Ave., replaced its predecessor just a block away and is built on the former site of Roy Martin Middle School, which was destroyed by fire several years ago. The old site of Variety had been showing its age, Principal Tyler Hall said. Built in 1952, the building lacked ...

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By z_white_knight

Jan. 8, 2013

10:49 a.m.

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CCSD keeps crying that they don't have any money.
By SAMPLE

Jan. 9, 2013

12:12 p.m.

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Let's see if i see this correct. you have 250 elementary schools and you didn't get the bond you wanted last November. Really, do you think one or two more schools are going to make that big of a difference in overcrowding when you have a significant number of schools that are not over crowded? a portable classroom school? if you have 8mil laying around to build one of these without a bond then you probably have the rest of the money to get another new school. what did you need the bond for again?