Superintendent Jara: Don’t politically profit off of student suicide
This week, the New York Times published a piece, Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen, detailing the heartbreaking young lives...
Las Vegas charter school sued for curriculum covering race, identity
A Black mom is accusing a Las Vegas charter school of creating a hostile learning environment for her white-passing son by requiring him to...
Academic slide hitting students of color hardest, new CCSD data shows
Students of color are seeing a disproportionately negative impact on their academic grades as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and school closures, according...
Councilwoman hopes to make pandemic ‘microschool’ program permanent
A public-private partnership launched to offer parents an alternative to Clark County School District’s virtual learning format may stick around even after the district...
Nevada to receive $477 million in relief funding to help K-12 schools reopen
The push to return students to physical classrooms has received a boost from the federal government.
Nevada is set to receive $477 million in pandemic...
UNLV lauded for outreach to students from under-resourced backgrounds
Higher education is often touted as one of the surest paths to a better, more secure life in the middle class. But how many...
6 in 10 Nevadans with student loans can’t make payments, survey says
Stacey Shadoff found herself unemployed after the Dress Barn, where she worked part-time as an assistant manager, closed down toward the end of December...
Nevada charter schools got millions in PPP loans
As state budget cuts have strained the public education system, Nevada’s publicly financed charter schools have been able to shore up operations with millions...
Communication and truth: An evaluation of an evaluation
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara had a performance evaluation on Tuesday. The next day, he ignored it.
Headlines after last week’s meeting conveyed...
Charter schools grow, but fall short of diversity targets set by Legislature
Charter schools essentially make up the third largest school district in Nevada and they are steadily gaining ground toward being the second largest.
According to...