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April 25, 2024

Education

North Las Vegas City Councilman Isaac Barron speaks during a city council meeting at North Las Vegas City Hall Wednesday, August 3, 2022.
NLV council to reconsider appointee to School Board
Dec. 2, 2023
The North Las Vegas City Councilman and Rancho High School teacher who was set to be the city’s appointee to the Clark County School Board has agreed to defer ...
Security camera upgrades at Eldorado High School located in the east valley of Las Vegas. Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
Culture, climate are key in redefining school safety, rural Nevada superintendent tells conference
Dec. 1, 2023
Safety is a feeling, not a condition — and in the school setting, climate is also a feeling, said one longtime school district leader. And they come together. Speaking at a school safety and security conference this week in Las Vegas, retired Eureka County School District Superintendent Dan Wold told attendees that a school’s ...
Frias scholar Aminata Dieng poses at UNLV Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Dieng, a Western High School graduate originally from Mauritania, is one of 24 Charles and Phyllis Frias Legacy scholars selected by the Public Education Foundation.
Frias Legacy Scholarship transforms life for Western High grad, 23 others
Nov. 29, 2023
Aminata Dieng left her home country of Mauritania in 2009, when she was 6 years old, to seek asylum in the United States. She eventually settled in Las Vegas, attended Western High School and had hoped to join the military upon graduation. Those plans, however, were waylaid when she learned she couldn’t enlist because ...
John Vellardita, right, executive director of the Clark County Education Association, talks with attorney Bradley Schrager following a hearing at the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. District Court Judge Crystal Eller issued a strike injunction against the teachers union.
Teachers union continues effort to have court’s injunction on sickouts lifted
Nov. 28, 2023
The Clark County Education Association reiterated its argument to the Nevada Supreme Court this week that an injunction by a Clark County District Court judge halting teacher sickouts was vague.
UNLV president Keith Whitfield responds to a question during an interview in his office at UNLV Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.
UNLV officials grapple with antisemitism amid protests
Nov. 24, 2023
As some college students protest the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza, officials at UNLV are toeing a fine line between protecting free speech and quelling concerns ...
Washoe County school superintendent's resignation prompts search for 5th new boss in 10 years
Nov. 22, 2023
The largest school district in northern Nevada will soon be looking for a new superintendent for the fifth time in 10 years. Washoe County School Superintendent Susan Enfield announced this week she's stepping ...
Family, friends and members of the community gather during a vigil on Tuesday Nov. 21, 2023, to honor Jonathan Lewis Jr, a 17-year-old student from Rancho High School who was fatally beaten by a group of teenagers on Nov. 1.
People gather to remember slain Las Vegas high schooler
Nov. 22, 2023
About 100 people gathered Tuesday night in an alley where a teen was mortally wounded in an after-school beating. The event heavily featured Christian prayer for the life of Jonathan Lewis, 17, who died on Nov. 7, almost a week after ...
CCSD Superintendent Jesus Jara speaks to the media during a visit at Charles Silvestri Junior High during the first day of school, Monday Aug. 7, 2023.
Facing pressure to resign, CCSD's Jara defends his performance
Nov. 18, 2023
In a letter to the School Board dated Nov. 9, Jara said the calls earlier this month by Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager and Senate Majority Nicole Cannizzaro for him to resign or be fired were ...
Jason and Samantha Patchett, parents of Rex Patchett, leave the courtroom after sentencing for Jose Marmolejo at the Regional Justice Center Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Marmolejo was sentenced for the death of eighth-grader Rex Patchett in front of Mannion Middle School on March 7, 2022.
Grieving parents suing driver, passengers, CCSD and Henderson in son’s death
Nov. 17, 2023
Jason and Samantha Patchett, whose 13-year-old son, Rex, died after being hit in March 2022 outside Mannion Middle School, argue in a court filing that the city and school district ...
Boys line up backstage during the Chaparral High School commencement ceremony at the Orleans Arena on Friday, June 15, 2012.
High school graduation rate in Las Vegas continues to climb
Nov. 16, 2023
The high school graduation rate in the Clark County School District inched up again last school year. Citing Nevada Department of Education data, CCSD said today that ...
The exterior of Rancho High School is shown in this Jan. 27, 2019, file photo. Eight people, all between the ages of 13 and 17 and students at Rancho, face murder charges in the Nov. 1, 2023, beating death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis, Metro Police said.
Donations surge for Rancho High School teen who died from beating
Nov. 15, 2023
An online fundraiser set up by the father of a Las Vegas teen who died after being beaten by a mob Nov. 1 near Rancho High School is exceeding its goal by tens of thousands of dollars
Marie Neisess, left, president of the CCEA, and executive director John Vellardita, right, confer in a hallway following a hearing at the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. District Court Judge Crystal Eller issued a strike injunction against the teachers union.
CCSD teachers union signals it will appeal ruling in strike-related case
Nov. 13, 2023
The legal saga between CCSD and CCEA, which represents CCSD’s 18,000 teachers, is part of their bitter fight over a new teacher contract. CCEA sought a dismissal of the district’s lawsuit with a motion ...
David Kelsey, lecturer of Deaf Studies, right, speaks with sign language while he teaches students during a class at Nevada State University in Henderson Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023.
Deaf studies program at Nevada State opens lines of communication in community
Nov. 13, 2023
Nevada State University since 2017 has offered students a bachelor of arts degree in deaf studies and a minor in deaf studies or ASL interpreting ...
Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour" in Nashville, Tenn., on May 5, 2023. Swift is releasing her "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert film on Oct. 13.
Classes on celebrities like Taylor Swift engaging new generation of law students
Nov. 11, 2023
A South Dakota law professor typically teaches about dense topics like torts and natural resources. But next semester, he and his fearless students are shaking things up by turning their attention to Taylor Swift. Sean Kammer wanted his legal writing course to draw ...
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro speaks during a press conference at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023.
State Senate leader joins Assembly speaker’s call seeking big changes atop CCSD
Nov. 8, 2023
Key Nevada lawmakers are ratcheting up the pressure on Superintendent Jesus Jara to no longer helm the Clark County School District. Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager, D-Las Vegas, called on the CCSD School Board on Monday to “take whatever steps are necessary” to begin the termination process, days after his public request for Jara to resign was met with ...