Teen gets national recognition for volunteer efforts

Nov. 19, 2009

By Tiffany Gibson

After winning the Prudential Spirit Community Award twice, it’s safe to say Daniel Edmondson is not your average high school senior. Last week, the 17-year-old Boulder City High School student was interviewed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Communication and Outreach for a national video about his volunteer group called Teens Actively Contributing (TAC).

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County OKs health clinic despite neighbors' opposition

Nov. 18, 2009

By Emily Richmond

Despite vocal opposition from some Spring Valley residents, the Clark County Commission unanimously approved a special use permit for a student health clinic at Elaine Wynn Elementary School.

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Nevada out of ‘race’ for innovation funding

Nov. 14, 2009

By Emily Richmond

It’s official: Nevada has been shut out of the “Race to the Top,” a federal grant program offering $4.35 billion to improve the nation’s public schools. Keith Rheault, Nevada’s superintendent of public instruction, said Thursday “it’s looking pretty hopeless ... they won’t even let us come to the starting line.”

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School maintenance slipping

Nov. 11, 2009

By Emily Richmond

As of July 31, the district’s backlog of maintenance work orders had nearly tripled to 12,937 from 4,327 at the end of July 2008, according to information being presented at Thursday’s School Board meeting. According to the report, the district buildings generally are not in “showpiece” condition, nor do they reflect “comprehensive stewardship.”

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First grad of Nevada Southern, now UNLV, didn’t expect to be

Nov. 9, 2009

By Emily Richmond

Jon Cobain didn’t give much thought to his place in history when he walked across the stage and accepted his college diploma from Nevada Southern, which would later become UNLV.

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Success!

Nov. 6, 2009

By Emily Richmond

Nearly eight years ago multimillionaire businessman and philanthropist Jim Rogers met with Don Snyder, then-president of Boyd Gaming, to explore the possibility of UNLV mounting its first-ever capital campaign. ¶ Consultants were hired to test the university’s readiness for a proposed $250 million drive, and the potential level of community support. ¶ The consultants’ report was far from encouraging: UNLV lacked the heft and infrastructure to attempt such a massive, multiyear undertaking, and community support was lacking. ¶ Rogers — who served five years as the higher education system’s chancellor before retiring in June — not only decided to forge ahead, but he raised the campaign’s ...

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Success: UNLV hits mark of $500 million in cash and pledges

Nov. 5, 2009

By Emily Richmond

Nearly eight years ago multimillionaire businessman and philanthropist Jim Rogers met with Don Snyder, then-president of Boyd Gaming, to explore the possibility of UNLV mounting its first-ever capital campaign.  A consultants’ report was far from encouraging: UNLV lacked the heft and infrastructure to attempt such a massive, multiyear undertaking, and community support was lacking.  Rogers not only decided to forge ahead, but he raised the campaign’s target to from $250 million to $500 million. People scoffed.  On Thursday, UNLV President Neal Smatresk told a UNLV Foundation dinner audience of 600 supporters that the goal of $500 million in cash and pledges had ...

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Utilities employees make sure students have a ball

Nov. 5, 2009

By Tiffany Gibson

Some schools have had to cut back on activities and programs because of budget constraints, but the North Las Vegas Utilities Department refused to let money woes cripple Cahlan-Edison Elementary School’s physical education classes. The Utilities Department is donating new sports equipment and two large bins to Cahlan-Edison, an Edison Learning Institute school in North Las Vegas.

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Program gives incentive to consider college — in eighth grade

Nov. 5, 2009

By Emily Richmond

The eighth grader was curious Wednesday why he had been chosen to attend an off-campus event to motivate him to aim for college, given that middle school was proving to be a challenge.

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Permit issue puts clinic on hold

Nov. 4, 2009

By Emily Richmond

Much of the anger voiced at a Spring Valley neighborhood meeting Monday about a proposed student health clinic at Elaine Wynn Elementary School was directed at the Clark County School District for not having previously discussed the plan publicly.

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UNLV announces $12.6 million scholarship program

Nov. 3, 2009

By Emily Richmond

UNLV President Neal Smatresk this morning announced the largest active endowed student scholarship program in the history of Nevada higher education -- $12.6 million from the Engelstad Family Foundation.

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Neighbors speak out against school clinic

Nov. 3, 2009

By Emily Richmond

The burden of identifying students with health issues has increasingly fallen to local public schools, some of which share their campuses with independently operated health clinics. Over the years the health clinics at six Clark County campuses have done more than just connect needy students with basic care. Staff have spotted potentially life-threatening illnesses and diseases that might otherwise have gone undiagnosed.

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School District sues teen over Palo Verde High fire

Nov. 3, 2009

By Steve Green

The Clark County School District is suing to recover damages from a 2008 fire that was set in the boys' locker room at Palo Verde High School in Summerlin. The district on Monday sued a youth who was arrested in the blaze as well as his parents in hopes of recovering damages it said totaled $71,318.20.

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Math teacher posted numbers for championship football team

Oct. 31, 2009

By Emily Richmond

Sports fans might have recognized the name of a teacher featured in a Las Vegas Sun story about single-sex classes at West Prep’s middle school.

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In single-sex experiment, school failed to measure

Oct. 29, 2009

By Emily Richmond

For six years a Las Vegas junior high school separated its seventh graders by gender for reading classes, in a bid to boost student achievement.

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