Saying research on gender identity is “unscientific,” the National Institutes of Health revoked $5 million in grants.

Several Henderson students had pieces featured in the annual Glass Craft and Bead Expo held at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas this past weekend. 

The Trump administration is rescinding up to $29 million in COVID-era grant funding for Nevada schools, a move that state officials say jeopardizes efforts across all 17 school districts, charter schools and private schools to help students.

Under the new policy, student athletes would be required to complete a medical form that includes signatures from the student, parent and a medical provider verifying the accuracy of the student’s birth sex.

This week's Indy Education newsletter highlights a bill that would provide $4 million to support school gardens statewide, and a bill that would protect the rights of students with disabilities.

Gov. Joe Lombardo is taking a new approach to fulfill his school choice agenda, while a bill by a Democrat would standardize existing policies.

This edition of the Indy Education newsletter also highlights bills on adding students to school boards and supporting international teachers.

Nevada education advocates are bracing for impact. Between staffing cuts, the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel federally appropriated spending and congressional Republicans’ budget blueprint — which calls for $330 billion in cuts to education and workforce spending over 10 years — federal education funding in the state could be in jeopardy.

A Reno teacher recently won a prestigious national award for her emphasis on student-led learning and restorative practices to instill confidence in her students.

Most of the new inquiries are focused on colleges’ partnerships with the PhD Project, a nonprofit that helps students from underrepresented groups get degrees in business.

The Clark County School Board voted unanimously on Thursday to offer the superintendent job to state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert, elevating an state administrator with deep roots in the district.

He cited family matters, but Whitfield’s resignation is the latest example of UNLV’s higher turnover that some trace to a long-standing North-South rivalry.

This week's Indy Education details coming community events with the final 3 candidates for Clark County Superintendent and a Vegas nonprofit providing free clothes for prom.

The state helped college students work around the financial barriers of lacking legal status, but students are feeling the limits of schools’ ability to support them.

After leading UNLV through the pandemic and the 2023 on-campus shooting, Keith Whitfield announced late Monday he is stepping down as president effective at the end of that day. 

The report points to the rise of student chronic absenteeism in the wake of the pandemic that many states and districts are still reeling from long after schools reopened as one reason behind their slow academic recovery. 

In this week's Indy Education newsletter, learn about the first Washoe County School Board member to be an accredited member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.

On Feb. 7, the NIH announced that it would cap the rate it would spend on so-called indirect costs for research grants at 15 percent, tantamount to cutting billions of dollars for biomedical and public health research.

A Nevada district court has ruled that sections of a 2023 bill that essentially forced the Elko County Commission to earmark a portion of property tax proceeds for schools in exchange for funding to build a new Owyhee school are unconstitutional.

AB217 would make it a misdemeanor for a school district employee to share information about a student with officers investigating or enforcing immigration laws.