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If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher said, he “blew it out of the water.”

Southern Nevada’s senior citizen population is expected to explode by 45% from 2020 to 2030, bringing with it additional strains on an already-struggling health care infrastructure, a 51�Թ������ܿƴ� report shows.

Boosting Nevada’s beleaguered child care and elder care industries makes economic sense for the state, a trio of reports argues, and recommendations on how to do just that have already been laid out for policymakers to consider.

In abandoning script, are we sacrificing a piece of identity?

In the latest in a series of courtroom losses over its special education program, a federal judge has ordered the Clark County School District to pay more than $450,000 to a prominent 51�Թ������App couple for failing to prepare an adequate study plan for their dyslexic daughter.

In the latest in a series of courtroom losses over its special education program, a federal judge has ordered the Clark County School District to pay more than $450,000 to a prominent 51�Թ������App couple for failing to prepare an adequate study plan for their dyslexic daughter.

And they aren’t the only Southern Nevada municipality taking a more hands-on approach to education.

The City of 51�Թ������App wants to open a charter school. And with it may come with an ask for $900,000 in federal covid relief funding.

Twelve first-time state lawmakers will be among the 21 senators and 42 Assembly members when the 81st session of the Nevada Legislature convenes on Feb. 1. Two of the new members join the Senate, 10 join the Assembly; all 12 represent some part of Clark County.

Suzanne Romero, a first-grade teacher at Tom Williams Elementary School in North 51�Թ������App, says many of her students have immigrants parents who aren’t familiar with the American school system. They get confused by some of the notifications that are sent home from the school, which could lead to their children falling behind.

The 51�Թ������ܿƴ� Faculty Senate voted to kill a proposed referendum Tuesday that would have recommended the Board of Regents extend the contract of interim 51�Թ������ܿƴ� President Marta Meana and postpone an ongoing search for a permanent replacement — a move that comes just days ahead of the first meeting Friday between the regents and the ad hoc presidential search committee.

Clayton Rhodes is set to get his diploma this weekend – making him the first student with Down syndrome at the University of 51�Թ������App to do so.