Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Education

UNLV president Keith Whitfield responds to a question during an interview in his office at UNLV Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.
UNLV president talks campus safety in wake of Dec. shooting
March 5, 2024
UNLV President Keith Whitfield used his annual State of the University address Tuesday to talk about steps the school is taking to prevent future violence like December's shooting ...
The Clark County School District administration building in Las Vegas.
Rezoning to reassign some Basic students to Chaparral OK’d
Feb. 28, 2024
Growth in the area assigned to an already-packed Basic High School is leading the Clark County School District to adjust attendance boundaries to shift some students westward ...
Mike Rowe, creator and host of the TV series Dirty Jobs and founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, speaks to students at Western High School Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Rowe’s visit to the school was to announce a new program, created in partnership between his foundation and the Engelstad Foundation, with the goal of providing full-ride scholarships for trade programs to students upon graduation.
Mike Rowe’s foundation seeks to bridge skills gap with scholarships for Western High grads to vocational schools
Feb. 27, 2024
Television personality Mike Rowe, known for creating and hosting the “Dirty Jobs” reality show, dropped by Western High School to announce the new Warrior Pathway Program ...
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara cleans out his office at the CCSD headquarters Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Jara's resignation, after almost six years as CCSD superintendent, took effect at 5 p.m. Friday.
After nearly six years as CCSD's superintendent, Jara says he ‘ran out of fight’
Feb. 25, 2024
Jesus Jara tells a story about meeting with MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle about a partnership between the prominent resorts company and 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.
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 ...