Hillary Davis

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Hillary Davis joined Greenspun Media Group in 2020 as a general assignment news reporter after spending 14 years reporting for newspapers in Arizona and California. She earned a master’s degree in mass communication from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona.

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Race-based remark by union leader fuels teacher pay controversy: Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024; The head of the teachers union in the Clark County School District said he didn’t support a revised pay scale that would have better recognized veteran teachers’ education and experience because those teachers were likely to be white and in the suburbs. Now, veteran teachers in the district — white and minorities, teaching in urban and ...
Admin union wants thorough process for selecting next CCSD superintendent: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024; Clark County School District employees are emphasizing the need for a thorough, transparent search for a new superintendent to replace Jesus Jara, driven by concern over a School Board agenda item to appoint a new leader on the same day that Jara is presumed to finalize his departure.
Teachers union: Superintendent Jara should be fired from CCSD for cause: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024; The Clark County School District teachers union is ratcheting up pressure on the School Board after Superintendent Jesus Jara proposed a plan to resign, declaring it wants Jara fired for cause.
The Clark County Education Association doesn’t want Jara, whose contract runs through June 2026, to be allowed to resign with a severance package worth ...
Superintendent Jara seeks to end tenure at CCSD: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024; Jesus Jara, the embattled superintendent of the Clark County School District, wants to resign from his post with a buyout worth at least a year of his annual salary, the district announced today. Barring that, he could ...
Student injured in weapon incident at Silverado High School: Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024; One Silverado High School student was injured today and another arrested after an altercation on campus involving a weapon, possibly a knife, school police said.
Report calls for U.S. study over Nevada teacher shortage concerns: Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024; A new report recommends that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights direct the federal government to study whether every child in Nevada is getting the same educational opportunities and experiences.
Rancho HS shifts focus to an expansion of Nevada law as it searches for a new principal: Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024; Rancho High School’s organizational team is using what it believes to be an expanded right under state law to ensure the campus community gets a say in the appointment of its new principal. ...
Rep. Titus asks BLM to pause wild horse roundup in Nevada: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024; U.S. Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada continued her advocacy for wild horses and burros by penning a letter to the director of the Bureau of Land Management urging the agency to reconsider the scale of its roundups ...
CCSD’s new pay scales leave veteran teachers feeling undervalued: Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024; Teachers who are new to CCSD — whether freshly minted college graduates or seasoned professionals from outside the district — will be walking on at wages that may be tens of thousands ...
Bodycam footage of incident at Durango HS shows students compliant as they protested: Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024; The footage from the six officers showed the teens being fully compliant with police — consistently. They, in fact, tried to defuse the situation.
After reviewing officers’ footage, ACLU says ‘CCSD lied’ about 2023 incident: Friday, Jan. 19, 2024; The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is demanding accountability from the Clark County School District over the actions of its police officers who the civil rights organization said lied about why they ...
Video shows full interaction between CCSD officer, teens in Durango incident: Judge ruled newly released videos are public record in ACLU lawsuit; Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024; The Clark County School District on Thursday released body-worn camera footage depicting a district police officer tackling and kneeling on a Black teen outside a Las Vegas high school nearly a year after eyewitness video of the violent incident went viral. The release of the footage satisfies a Clark County District Court judge’s order in ...
Venue uncertainty continues to loom over GOP caucuses in Clark County: Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024; The Clark County Republican Party is still without a clear list of venues in the Las Vegas area for its planned presidential nominating caucuses next month. That much was apparent Monday, when the party’s website displayed a graphic saying “Caucus locations are being updated. Check back soon.” Previously, that online page listed about three dozen ...
CCSD Board faces opposition to limits on appointed members: Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024; The Clark County School District Board is seeking to expand restrictions on its nonvoting, appointed board members with a policy that does not allow the newly seated members to make or second motions ...
Nevada’s GOP caucuses, set for Feb. 8, have yet to win approval for use of CCSD schools: Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024; CCSD uses a third-party booking site to schedule its facility use to outside groups. A Sun review of the online portal showed availability at numerous schools the Republicans ...
BLM aims to round up thousands of horses in Nevada: Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024; The ongoing wild horse roundup in rural Northern Nevada is planned to be what is likely the single largest gather conducted by the federal government. The Bureau of Land Management plans to gather and remove 2,875 mustangs ...
CCSD hopes for transparent contract negotiations in future: Friday, Jan. 5, 2024; The Clark County School District wants the public to have more access to its employee contract negotiations. This comes after a bruising, months-long process that was resolved just before Christmas with 18% across-the-board raises for teachers over the next year and a half ...
Curbs on solitary confinement among dozens of new laws that are now in effect in Nevada: Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024; A new law curbing the use of solitary confinement in Nevada jails and prisons went into effect Monday. It’s one of 85 new laws from last year’s legislative session that went live at the start of the new year, and a reform state leaders ...
Education notebook: Nevada superintendent gets U.S. appointment: Monday, Dec. 25, 2023; Nevada’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert has been appointed to the federal National Assessment Governing Board. The board sets policy for the Nation’s Report Card, also known as ...
Complaint filed against CCSD in support of autistic, nonverbal teen: Swastika carved on boy while attending Clark H.S., unsatisfactory educational plan among allegations; Friday, Dec. 22, 2023; The due process complaint, filed with the state’s Department of Education, alleged that the Clark County School District did not provide the student, who was a 17-year-old 12th-grader at the time ...
Teachers union amends lawsuit on Nevada ban on strikes: Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023; The Clark County teachers union has tweaked its legal bid to overturn the state law banning strikes by public employees, a group that includes educators. The Clark County Education Association abandoned the lawsuit against Clark County School District ...
CCSD finalizes new teachers contract through arbitrator: Educators to receive raises over next two years, but no rescaling for veteran employees; Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023; After a brutal and lengthy fight over several months, Clark County School District teachers have a new contract. The district said Wednesday that an arbitrator had accepted a contract that will give teachers a 10% across-the-board raise ...
Judge: ACLU may request entire case file on CCSD Police incident: Officer seen tacking Black student on viral video outside Durango High School; Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023; The ACLU of Nevada can amend its request to compel the Clark County School District to turn over the greater investigative file, not just the resulting final report, on the school police officer who slammed a Black teen to the ground and knelt on his back last winter ...
Judge: CCSD must release video of officer taking down student: Incident involving Black teenager occurred in February; Monday, Dec. 18, 2023; The Clark County School District must release the body-worn camera footage of a school police officer tackling and kneeling on a Black student outside a Las Vegas high school last winter, a Clark County District Court judge ordered ...
CCSD support staff planned raises on hold for teachers union negotiations: Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023; Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno, who chairs the Interim Finance Committee, “deferred” CCSD’s request after several district support staffers offered testimony on what the raises would mean ...
New fund aids expansion of Nevada charter schools: Friday, Dec. 15, 2023; The Nevada State Infrastructure Bank approved the Nevada Facilities Fund, a $100 million revolving loan fund, in October to assist charter schools with a need that ...
At memorial vigil, UNLV president offers message of hope and perseverance: Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023; Perhaps, UNLV President Keith Whitfield said, others are feeling like he does right now — struggling to understand how last week’s mass shooting happened and feeling that ...
Las Vegas police: Man shoots woman, 3 kids in suspected murder-suicide: One child survived and was 'clinging to life'; Monday, Dec. 11, 2023; A man, woman and two children are dead and a third child was wounded in what Metro Police believe was a murder-suicide this morning in the far northwest valley. Metro homicide ...
At vigil, slain UNLV professor remembered as neighbor, friend: Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023; Many mourners bowed, a respectful sign of greeting, farewell and gratitude in Japan, upon leaving the altars.
UNLV mourns slain members of its ‘framily’: Friday, Dec. 8, 2023; One of the professors who died in Wednesday’s shooting at UNLV loved cats. Another was a young mother of four. Yet another wanted to contribute to learning at the university ...
Professor-turned-killer at UNLV had dark interests, faced eviction: Friday, Dec. 8, 2023; The man police said killed three faculty members Wednesday at UNLV was a career professor, most recently a part-time instructor at Roseman University of Health Sciences in Henderson, with an interest in dark conspiracies and mysteries and a belief that “there is political turf-fighting, ignoble actions, pettiness ...
Suspect in UNLV shooting was rejected for job, decried ‘ignoble actions’ at universities: Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023; The man suspected of fatally shooting three people and wounding another at UNLV was a career professor who unsuccessfully sought a job at the university, according to reports. The suspect ...
'Tragic Day': 3 killed, 1 injured in midday campus shooting at UNLV: Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023; Three people were killed and another critically injured today in a shooting on the UNLV campus, according to Metro Police. UNLV Police "neutralized" the suspect, who was pronounced dead ...
CCSD to court: Union attempt to throw out anti-strike law case a ‘Hail Mary’: Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023; The state, in a motion to dismiss filed on Monday, said that 36 other states in addition to the federal government bar their employees from striking in exchange for collective bargaining rights.
New School Board member wants to see trustees appreciate different perspectives: Monday, Dec. 4, 2023; As the leader of a Las Vegas area charter school, new Clark County School Board member Lisa Satory wants the group of trustees she’s joining to appreciate each others’ varied ...
NLV council to reconsider appointee to School Board: Saturday, 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 ...
Metro Police: ISIS propaganda seized from home of Las Vegas teen arrested for making terroristic threats: Friday, Dec. 1, 2023; A tactical team took the suspect into custody on charges of making terroristic threats, attempting to further an act of terrorism, providing material support to a terrorist ...
Culture, climate are key in redefining school safety, rural Nevada superintendent tells conference: Friday, 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 ...
Teachers union continues effort to have court’s injunction on sickouts lifted: Tuesday, 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.
People gather to remember slain Las Vegas high schooler: Wednesday, 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 ...
Four teens face second-degree murder charges in fatal beating case: Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023; Four teens being prosecuted as adults in the fatal beating of a Rancho High School student were arraigned today on second-degree ...
Lawmaker calls for investigation into Nevada wild horse deaths: Monday, Nov. 20, 2023; Rep. Dina Titus is calling for a thorough and transparent investigation by the Bureau of Land Management into a truck wreck that killed seven wild horses rounded up ...
Caesars workers approve new contract; votes on MGM, Wynn coming this week: Monday, Nov. 20, 2023; Culinary Union Local 226 members who work for Caesars Entertainment properties are expected to ratify a contract this evening, union leadership said today. The vote ...
Facing pressure to resign, CCSD's Jara defends his performance: Saturday, 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 ...
Four teen suspects in death of Las Vegas high schooler transferred to adult jail: Friday, Nov. 17, 2023; Four of the eight teen suspects in the beating death of a Rancho High School student have been booked into adult jail. Booking logs for the Clark County Detention Center show ...
Grieving parents suing driver, passengers, CCSD and Henderson in son’s death: Friday, 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 ...
High school graduation rate in Las Vegas continues to climb: Thursday, 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 ...
Donations surge for Rancho High School teen who died from beating: Wednesday, 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
Eight teenagers accused in death of Rancho High School student: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023; Eight teenagers have been arrested and charged for the murder of Rancho High School student Jonathan Lewis, who died after being beaten just off campus earlier this month. Police apprehended the suspects, ages 13-17, today after a lengthy investigation ...
CCSD teachers union signals it will appeal ruling in strike-related case: Monday, 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 ...