Education

Top US graduate programs ranked: Which UNLV programs made top 100?

More than a dozen UNLV graduate programs ranked among the top 100 in their respective disciplines in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Graduate ...

CCSD to consider closing historic Goodsprings Elementary School

The Clark County School District is considering closing Goodsprings Elementary School, its oldest and smallest rural school, at the end of the year. Goodsprings, located ...

Aging buildings, fewer students create new reality for CCSD

The Clark County School District faces a stark reality: Enrollment is falling while its buildings continue to age. For the nation’s fifth-largest district, that equation ...

CSN targets underserved Southern Nevada neighborhoods with expanding network of training centers

CSN President Stacy Klippenstein said the training center had already welcomed hundreds of students, calling it “essential for the revitalization of the Historic Westside.” Training ...

Legal eagles in training: Law-focused charter school planned for Las Vegas

A school geared toward young people who aspire to become lawyers could soon join the Las Vegas area’s growing charter school landscape. Officials from the ...

Three CCSD board incumbents face challengers in upcoming election

The field is set for Clark County School Board seats up for election this year, and for some candidates, the race could be over as ...

CCSD bus safety camera plan stuck in neutral as vendors spar

An effort to install external cameras on Clark County School District buses has stalled amid a feud between two firms competing to become the district’s ...

El plan de cámaras de seguridad en los autobuses escolares se queda estancado mientras los proveedores se enfrentan

La iniciativa de instalar cámaras externas en los autobuses del Distrito Escolar del Condado de Clark —destinada a hacer frente al aumento de los accidentes ...

Nevada colleges push more free, low-cost course materials

The Nevada System of Higher Education has updated its policy to expand student access to free and affordable course materials — a timely move as ...

Carnival at The Meadows School celebrates inclusion and joy

On Friday, the last day of class before spring break, Meadows students greeted their guests as they disembarked from their buses and led them to ...

Las Vegas’ St. Viator Catholic school makes inclusion the norm

In Nevada’s Catholic schools, there is only one place where a child with special needs sits beside their classmates, not apart from them. At St. ...

Students push CCSD to connect classrooms to life beyond high school

CCSD is deep into mapping out its next “strategic plan,” a medium-term guidance document for the next five years.

Lash by lash, Las Vegas students’ careers take shape in beauty industry

SECTA has housed Nevada’s only high school cosmetology prep program since the school opened as the Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center in 1966.

CCSD, a school district built for growth, adjusts to contraction

Six months after celebrating its lowest teacher vacancy rate in years, CCSD now has more than 1,000 of its educators in uncertainty — their positions ...

Customs and Border Protection pulls out of College of Southern Nevada job fair

U.S. Customs and Border Protection abruptly withdrew from a recruiting career fair at the College of Southern Nevada after an outcry from students and faculty, ...

Teachers union forecasts no layoffs despite CCSD surplus list

The Clark County Education Association is moving quickly to reassure its members after the Clark County School District announced it had identified more than 1,200 ...

Declining enrollment ripples through CCSD staffing

More than 1,200 Clark County School District employees face being potentially reassigned as enrollment declines and rising costs lead the district to eliminate their positions ...

North Las Vegas is building its next generation of teachers

Available only at Canyon Springs, the program is a $600,000 public-private effort between the Nevada Association of School Administrators and the city of North Las ...

Grant turns biology into a hands-on experience at CCSD school

The highlight of the haul is two years’ worth of preserved marine animals for dissection: about 500 small squid, plus some starfish, sea urchins and ...

Signs of progress emerge as Ebert charts new course for CCSD

Collaboration will be critical to maintaining the Clark County School District’s momentum, Superintendent Jhone Ebert emphasized Thursday during her first State of the District address.