As teenagers talked about their future during the Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum, they weren’t fantasizing about dream jobs and fancy homes, or worrying about what school they’d attend next. Instead, they focused on the burden of student loans, facing unemployment, paying off bills and providing for their future family — issues faced by ...
The moderators include business executives, civic leaders, judges, educators, media representatives and members of the Las Vegas City Council, Clark County Commission and Clark County School Board ...
Unlike the mudslinging, belittlement and intolerance on display not just during overheated campaign seasons but, increasingly during legislative sessions, students raised hands to speak rather than talking over each other ...
America the beautiful. America the proud. America the 17th in education. America the 13th in quality of life. America the 10th in freedom. America the international power? There is no doubt that America is falling behind on the world stage.
Although adults lay down the iron laws, make plans for the future and regulate society as it stands today, it is the adolescents who are — and rightfully should be — the voice of the future.
The vast majority of Las Vegas’ top high school students has a positive view of their education but said the Clark County School District needs much improvement, according to a Las Vegas Sun survey of 200 students attending the Sun Youth Forum earlier this month.
Nearly 1,000 Las Vegas high school students gathered this week at the 57th annual Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum to discuss hot-button issues such as abortion and gay marriage. It was not the chaos you might have expected. Instead of displaying vitriol and rancor, these students debated one another with courtesy and respect.
About 1,000 students from 52 high schools across the Las Vegas Valley participated Tuesday in the 56th annual Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum. The Sun Youth Forum gives students an opportunity to share their views with peers and community leaders.
Some of Clark County’s brightest high school students will appear on a TV public affairs show today and next Sunday, offering viewers a flavor of the thoughtful discussions about current events they had during the Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum.
Nov. 22 was one of many students’ first opportunity for fellowship with others from the Clark County School District and to discuss major topics in the world.
The first thing to come across the minds of the students in room N241 of the Las Vegas Convention Center was the ever-so-touchy topic of whether marijuana should be legalized and taxed.
