Trustee Evelyn Garcia Morales, left, listens to trustee Katie Williams during a Clark County School District Board meeting at the CCSD Greer Education Center Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. The CCSD board on Friday approved the name for the Northeast Career and Technical Academy in North Las Vegas, despite some members’ objection to the name based on the school’s location.
Friday, March 24, 2023 | 4:08 p.m.
The Clark County School District’s soon-to-open career and technical academy will be called Northeast Career and Technical Academy.
The CCSD board approved the name Thursday on a 4-3 split, as some members questioned whether the name truly fits.
Northeast Career and Technical Academy, or NECTA, is set to open this fall at 405 W. Dorrell Lane in North Las Vegas. That’s near Fifth Street and the 215 Beltway, which board members Brenda Zamora and Irene Bustamante Adams and President Evelyn Garcia Morales considered in the north-central part of the Las Vegas Valley, not the northeast.
CCSD names most vocational schools with directional signifiers. NECTA will join Northwest, Southwest, Southeast, East and West career and technical academies and Central Technical Training Academy. A vocational school planned in Henderson has tentatively been named South Career and Technical Academy.
Rebecca Gipson, an assistant city manager for North Las Vegas, agreed that NECTA should be called North Career and Technical Academy.
“Should you consider an additional (career and technical academy) in the future in the true northeast portion of the Valley, you will be limiting naming options available to you,” she told the board.
School Board Member Lisa Guzman, who sits on the district’s facility naming committee, said “there could be and probably will be another high school up there that could be named North” that wouldn’t be a career and technical academy; CCSD Superintendent Jesus Jara said the district has undeveloped property about three to four miles from NECTA, which could make a future high school built there too close to NECTA to also be a vocational school;
School Board Member Katie Williams, whose district includes NECTA, said there had been no objections from the city of North Las Vegas over the last three years of the school’s planning, and she didn’t want to delay NECTA’s opening.
Budget town halls
The public is invited to chat with CCSD School Board members and leadership about budget priorities for the next school year.
The district will hold budget “community conversations” 6-8 p.m. Monday at Chaparral High School, 3850 Annie Oakley Drive; 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Gibson Middle School, 3900 W. Washington Ave.; 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Von Tobel Middle School, 2436 N. Pecos Road; and Saturday, 2-4 p.m. April 1 at the Family Support Center, 1720 S. Maryland Parkway.
Input gathered will be compiled and presented at a School Board meeting in April, ahead of when CCSD’s next tentative budget is scheduled to go before the Board for approval at its April 13 meeting.
Bonanza renovations
The School Board approved a $58.8 million contract Thursday to Martin-Harris Construction to be the construction manager for comprehensive renovations at Bonanza High School. Located midvalley off Charleston and Rainbow boulevards, Bonanza is one of CCSD’s older high schools at close to 50 years old.
Data dashboard
CCSD has compiled a range of school performance data and given it a new one-stop online home at data.ccsd.net.
The data dashboard, which the district unveiled Tuesday, includes data down to the school level on enrollment, attendance, staffing levels, student behavior events and performance on standardized tests.
Some of this data was already available on other websites, like the Nevada Department of Education’s “report card” portal, at relatively broad levels, but CCSD’s new site also includes details on middle and high school student participation in advanced coursework, weekly attendance data, and how many behavior events are resolved with restorative practices versus suspension and expulsion.
