Nevada Dems battle DeVos over student loan forgiveness
WASHINGTON — A long-simmering feud between U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and congressional Democrats over student loan forgiveness is heating up as hundreds of...
Foundations of gaming legends to fund UNLV medical school building
Private donations of $155 million, mostly from the Engelstad Foundation and the Lincy Foundation, will fund construction of UNLV’s medical school building. The Engelstad Foundation...
Who wants a billion dollars?
Politicians are “for” education. Just ask them.Now the Clark County Education Association is giving those purportedly education-loving elected officials an opportunity to put some...
Top of a bad list: Nevada leads nation in student loan defaults
Though the federal student loan default rate has continued to decline overall, Nevada's rate climbed to the highest in the country for the 2016...
House panel advances effort to rein in higher education costs
WASHINGTON — A U.S. House committee passed legislation on Thursday that supporters hailed as a “down payment” on a long-sought goal: free college education...
Graffiti threatening African Americans, Sanders supporters found at UNLV
Graffiti making "a broad threat to our university community as a whole, as well as specific threats against African Americans and local supporters of...
NSHE urges Supreme Court to protect DACA
All eight of Nevada’s higher education institutions are among the 165 private and public colleges and universities nationwide that have asked the U.S. Supreme...
Group’s analysis finds funding decreased in most Nevada school districts
While the Legislature celebrated what they called “the largest education budget in history” that increase did not trickle down to most school districts, according...
Lee, Rosen promote cybersecurity apprentice bills
Rep. Susie Lee and Sen. Jacky Rosen appeared together in Henderson Friday to promote their identical bills in the House and Senate to create...
No teachers strike as district says it’s got more money than it thought it...
The Clark County School District says it turns out it has more money than it thought it did, and the union says the district...