The first installment of Education Week’s Quality Counts 2020 report gives Nevada a C- in its chance-for-success index, which is the same grade it received last year.

Sales tax is the second revenue stream targeted by a Clark County teachers union to significantly bolster education funding, according to an initiative petition filed Wednesday. The petition calls for raising the Local School Support Tax — part of the overall sales tax — from 2.6 percent to 4.1 percent, which would be a 58 percent increase

Students attending the Clark County School District can’t necessarily expect the same opportunities as their peers across town, down the street or even in the same building. That’s the gist of a report unveiled Tuesday by a superintendent-created advisory commission, which found four “failure points” regarding equity and access.

The Clark County Education Association is seeking to raise the state’s gaming tax rate on the largest companies from 6.75 percent to 9.75 percent by placing a measure on the 2022 ballot.

The Washoe County School District’s ousted superintendent, Traci Davis, won’t be taking the principal job at West Prep Academy in Las Vegas.

Past a robotic litter box, rows of massage chairs, automated beverage dispensers and too many smart-home systems to count, a high-tech spin on a traditional toy snagged the attention of some CES passersby this week.

The UNLV School of Medicine announced Wednesday that Tulane University’s Dr. Marc J. Kahn would take over as the school’s dean on April 1. The addition comes following the movement of the school’s founding dean, Dr. Barbara Atkinson, to an advisory role late last year.

Ivanka Trump championed apprenticeships and encouraged employers to invest in their workers during her keynote Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas at CES, the world’s largest consumer technology show.

Two Reno-area charter schools are adopting weighted lotteries to give children from low-income households greater access — a move that’s in line with the State Public Charter School Authority’s effort to diversify its student body.

When Gov. Steve Sisolak announced more than $155 million in private funds for a centerpiece building at the UNLV Medical School last November, it was the end result of nearly a decade of negotiating over an edifice that had more than once been thrown into the waste bin.

A small bedroom with an intergalactic-themed sheet covering one wall serves as the headquarters for the YouTube channel that enables this global viewership. Here, Jenny Ballif, who’s known as “Science Mom” to her fans, conducts demonstrations that she hopes will foster a scientific curiosity among children.

On first glance, this scene features all the hallmarks of small-group instruction — a teacher working directly with several students who are on the same academic level. And it is. But in this classroom, the learning style is by geographic necessity, not purely pedagogical choice.

Eighty-four percent of Nevada students in the Class of 2019 received a diploma, setting a graduation record for the second straight year. The statewide graduation rate was 83 percent last year and 81 percent in 2017.

On a corner lot next to Little League fields, the walls forming a new school have taken root. The one-story building shines bright against the backdrop of Pinyon Juniper-dotted mountains to the east.

Just over a year since the NSHE approved a fee waiver that allows foster youth to attend Nevada public college, 66 students have used the waiver. During a presentation on Friday, the Board of Regents received praise for the waiver alongside recommendations for improving the program and other foster youth support services.

The Clark County Board of Trustees on Thursday night delivered its first evaluation of Superintendent Jesus Jara, giving him praise for his increased community and business involvement but lamenting some of his communication gaffes.

The proposed contract, which is up for approval during the Board of Regent’s meeting on Thursday and Friday, is the latest in a string of contracts by NV Energy that offer cash payments in return for sticking with the utility and promising to apply for a future fixed-rate renewable energy-based pricing program.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to make Federal Student Aid a standalone entity, removing it from the purview of the U.S. Department of Education, she said Tuesday in Reno.