Advocates fear that the pandemic-related shift to distance education widened inequities, especially for students with disabilities, English language learners, rural residents and students of color.  

Should the Elko County School District take out $150 million in bonds to build, repair and maintain educational facilities during the next six years?

Three weeks after the board terminated Superintendent Jesus Jara’s employment contract in a divided vote, trustees undid that action during a marathon meeting that started Thursday evening and spilled into the early morning hours of Friday.

Potentially days away from the end of his three-year tenure leading the Clark County School District, Superintendent Jesus Jara rebuffed accusations of a polarizing, top-down management style while acknowledging a failure to forge unity during a divisive time in the school district’s history.

Western Nevada College President Vincent Solis announced Tuesday that he will leave the Carson City school at the end of 2021 after being named the new president of a community college outside Houston. 

Rose said she is focused on expanding educational attainment, helping diversify the state economy and protecting the health and safety of local communities, with vaccine mandates in place for college staff.

However, leading administrators say large numbers of unvaccinated students at this point in time may not necessarily result in large numbers of disenrolled students or fired workers.

The word bandied about in relation to the Clark County School District leadership tug-of-war is dysfunction. But reaching this point wasn’t an overnight phenomenon, just as there is no overnight fix.

In separate votes, the board voted 7-4 to name Regent Carol Del Carlo as new chair pro tempore and Regent Amy Carvalho as vice chair pro tempore.

Filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, the suit named UNR President Brian Sandoval, Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Melody Rose and Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak as defendants.

Though McAdoo and Carter will retain their seats on the 13-member board, which regents might emerge as leaders in the interim is unclear. 

Trustees originally called the special board meeting to address redistricting, but by Thursday, they were facing a larger question: How should they select an interim leader of the nation’s fifth-largest school district?

In an email sent Monday, search chair and Regent Patrick Carter added that he recommended the current search for a new special counsel be canceled and that an outside firm be retained to conduct a new search. 

A group of trustees’ latest attempt to oust Clark County Superintendent Jesus Jara from his job overseeing the nation’s fifth-largest school district has succeeded.

Three weeks after the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education leveled serious allegations against the top two members of the Board of Regents, little has changed. 

The contract development, however, was overshadowed by more tensions among and between trustees and the superintendent that were surfacing Friday afternoon.

In a stinging rebuke, Judge Richard Boulware wrote that the school district failed to respond to the student's specific needs and ignored professional recommendations.

The Clark County School District operates what officials say is the largest mariachi program in the country, exposing thousands of students to a traditional part of Hispanic culture.

More than a month ago, the Clark County School Board of Trustees gave district leadership clearance to move forward with an employee vaccine mandate, but silence has followed.

In an extraordinary 21-page rebuke of the top two members of the Board of Regents, Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Melody Rose outlined an alleged pattern of hostility ultimately designed, she said, to force her from her position as the system’s top administrator.