Education

CCSD dealing with the realities of shrinking enrollment

The Clark County School District is contending with its largest student loss in years, with newly released figures showing enrollment plunged by more than 9,000 ...

HCA’s Las Vegas training hub builds confidence that nurses can carry into patient rooms

This week, HCA Healthcare opened the HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement — the state’s first simulation and training center of its kind designed specifically ...

Adventure, education and virtual reality collide in new UNLV Dreamscape center

J ayden Barr and Elijah Davis are deep in an “Indiana Jones”-style adventure at the UNLV Lied Library searching for a pearl protected by an ...

Education Department scraps minority-serving grants; UNLV, Nevada State and CSN affected

The Trump administration has pulled $350 million in federal grants from some of the country’s most diverse colleges, a move that will strip Nevada institutions ...

Transformed Macy’s in Las Vegas is ‘like Hogwarts’ for charter school students

Western Youth Leadership, Engagement, and Empowerment Middle School, or WYLEES, is one of the valley’s newest schools. It’s unique not just as a charter school ...

New CCSD magnet school opens with industry ties and cutting-edge classrooms

Principal Pate Thomas on Monday morning led a group of visitors through the South Career and Technical Academy, enthusiastically highlighting the ultramodern facilities at the ...

Back-to-school prep for immigrant families in Las Vegas includes ICE planning

The Nevada Immigrant Coalition urges immigrant families to enroll their children in school but plan and know their rights …

For first time in years, CCSD classrooms are mostly staffed

The Clark County School District is starting the new school year Monday with significantly improved staffing levels, reporting nearly 750 fewer teacher vacancies than …

Mount Charleston’s tiny elementary ready to reopen after big community push

Inside Earl B. Lundy Elementary, two teachers are putting the finishing touches on their classrooms, carefully arranging pallets of fresh textbooks and ...

Keeping students safe on Clark County streets is everyone's responsibility, officials say

CCSD has about 375 schools, and each one has its own issues, many around their traffic.

Nevada superintendent search down to six names

The Nevada State Board of Education has selected six candidates to potentially fill the state superintendent seat.

‘Fill the Bus’ supply drive signals end of summer nearing, start of school year

The steady stream of brand-new crayons, spiral notebooks and wooden pencils that flowed to the school supply drive in a southwest valley parking lot was ...

New CCSD superintendent’s leadership team takes shape

The Clark County School District has several new central office administrators as its most recently hired superintendent prepares for her first full school year at ...

Nevada State University president stepping down

Pollard was the first Black woman to serve as president at any institution in the Nevada System of Higher Education. She is credited with leading ...

Henderson-based blind children's nonprofit in crisis after state grant cut

A Henderson nonprofit organization that teaches life skills to blind youths is rethinking how it will provide its services after losing the state grants that ...

Prescription to boost veterinarians in Nevada: Local talent, new school

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared 243 rural veterinary shortage areas in 46 states this year. Douglas and Nye counties are considered “high-priority shortage ...

No desks, no debt: Teens try out trades at hands-on Las Vegas summer camp

Teenage summer campers experienced their light bulb moments this week — literally. In a workshop, they built lamps by hand, soldering copper tubing for the ...

Nevada Latino Caucus to return to bill to keep ICE out of schools

The Nevada Latino Legislative Caucus said it will revive a proposal vetoed this month by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo that would have prevented federal immigration ...

No school? No problem, thanks to summer meal program

About one in five Southern Nevada children, or more than 110,000 kids, overall live in a food-insecure household ...