Las Vegas Sun

April 23, 2024

Education

District Court Judge Jessica Peterson, shown during a hearing at the Regional Justice Center Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, is being asked by the Clark County Education Association to lift the injunction she set against the teachers union to prevent further strikes. CCEA contends the union and the Clark County School District, with a new contract in hand, are at labor peace and the need for the injunction has passed.
Injunction banning teacher strikes remains in place, for now, after court hearing
Feb. 23, 2024
A judge says she is inclined to drop a court injunction preventing further teacher strikes in the Clark County School District, but it appears she can’t do it just now. Clark County District Judge Jessica Peterson said ...
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara waits for the start of a school board meeting as teachers protest outside the Clark County School District Education Center Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. The Clark County School District and the Clark County Education Association, the teachers union, are in contract negotiations.
Jara out after 6 years as CCSD board approves severance
Feb. 22, 2024
As of 5 p.m. Friday, Jara will no longer be at the helm of CCSD, ending nearly six years with the nation's fifth-largest school district. He will leave with a $250,000 lump sum ...
CCSD elementary special education teacher accused of child abuse
Feb. 22, 2024
A Clark County School District special education teacher was arrested Wednesday on several charges including false imprisonment, according to CCSD police.
Christopher Peterson, legal director of the ACLU of Nevada, during a news conference at the ACLU of Nevada offices Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. The news conference addressed questions relating to the release of CCSD Police body-worn camera footage depicting a CCSD police officer tackling and kneeling on a Black teen outside a Las Vegas high school last year.
CCSD balks at ACLU’s attempt to recover lawsuit costs, fees
Feb. 22, 2024
The Clark County School District does not want to pay the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada the nearly $50,000 in fees and costs the organization said it incurred during its successful legal fight for video and other records from a district police officer’s violent encounter with a group of predominantly Black teens last year outside ...
Clark County Superintendent Jesus Jara, left, congratulates new board member Adam Johnson after he is sworn in at Las Vegas City Hall, downtown, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.
Vote tonight will determine if CCSD moves on from Superintendent Jesus Jara
Feb. 22, 2024
After nearly six combative years at the helm of the Clark County School District, Superintendent Jesus Jara is on his way out, pending the School Board’s acceptance ...
Crossing guard Greg Haas stands outside Neil C Twitchell Elementary in Henderson Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.
Clark County Commission OKs extending crossing guard services to middle schools
Feb. 21, 2024
The Clark County Commission is expanding crosswalk guard services to 23 public middle schools in the county’s unincorporated areas. Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved ...
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., speaks during a Communities In Schools news conference at JD Smith Middle School Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Communities in Schools of Nevada announced it has been awarded a five-year $11,852,258 grant from the United States Department of Education.
Nearly $12 million grant can transform 6 schools in Nevada
Feb. 21, 2024
The nonprofit Communities in Schools of Nevada, which has been in the Clark County School District for 20 years, won the competitive five-year award from ...
The exterior of the Clark County School District's headquarters in Las Vegas.
Missed deadline puts Clark County teacher, staff raises on hold
Feb. 17, 2024
The Interim Finance Committee — a body of state lawmakers that makes various funding decisions between Nevada’s regular biennial legislative sessions — most recently met Feb. 8 to decide ...
UNLV geoscience expert Matthew Lachniet explains rising temperatures in the West, as Colby Pellegrino, director of water resources at Southern Nevada Water Authority, and Lynn Fenstermaker of Desert Research Institute look on. The trio spoke during a panel discussion on climate and drought at UNLV on June 29, 2017.
DRI, UNLV join regional effort to confront climate change issues
Feb. 16, 2024
A team of researchers at the Desert Research Institute and UNLV is joining forces with other regional universities to study climate challenges in the water-scarce Southwest as part of ...
The Clark County School District offices are shown in Las Vegas in May 2009.
Health District: No new cases of TB in CCSD schools after potential exposure
Feb. 15, 2024
The Southern Nevada Health District announced today that no additional active cases of tuberculosis were found following a December case in the Clark County School District ...
District Court Judge Jessica Peterson, shown during a hearing at the Regional Justice Center Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, is being asked by the Clark County Education Association to lift the injunction she set against the teachers union to prevent further strikes. CCEA contends the union and the Clark County School District, with a new contract in hand, are at labor peace and the need for the injunction has passed.
With contract settled, Clark County teachers union asks judge to dissolve no-strike injunction
Feb. 15, 2024
The Clark County Education Association wants a judge to dissolve the injunction that has been in place since September to prevent further teacher strikes now that the ...
Clark County School District Deputy Superintendent Brenda Larsen-Mitchell attends a meeting held to vote on Superintendent Jesus Jara's resignation proposal at Henderson City Hall Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Larsen-Mitchell was appointed as interim superintendent Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, after the Clark County School District board voted to accept Jara's resignation.
Jesus Jara's termination approved by CCSD board; terms yet to be finalized
Feb. 7, 2024
A split Clark County School District Board has voted against giving embattled Superintendent Jesus Jara the resignation package he wants. After about two hours of discussion tonight, the board voted 4-3 against ...
John Vellardita, executive director of the Clark County Education Association union, attends a news conference at CCSD headquarters Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019.
Race-based remark by union leader fuels teacher pay controversy
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 ...
Jeff Horn, executive director of the Clark County Association of School Administrators and Professional-Technical Employees, responds to a question during an interview in the Slaughter House fitness room at Mission High School Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
Admin union wants thorough process for selecting next CCSD superintendent
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.
In this Aug. 28, 2019 file photo, John Vellardita, left, executive director of the Clark County Education Association, and Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara attends a news conference at CCSD headquarters in Las Vegas.
Teachers union: Superintendent Jara should be fired from CCSD for cause
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 ...