The Board of Examiners on Tuesday will consider approving three $200,000 contracts for companies that could play a key role in implementing the state’s new education funding formula.

A roundtable in Las Vegas on Tuesday brought students, administrators and presidents together to discuss how Nevada’s colleges and universities can support their DACA and undocumented students.

A new report shows a mixed bag of results when it comes to educating students in Nevada’s more far-flung locales, identifying improved test scores as a bright spot but low college readiness as a challenge.

At an IndyTalks forum hosted at the Grand Sierra Resort on Wednesday, Nevada Independent editor Jon Ralston questioned Washoe County School District Board of Trustees President Katy Simon Holland and interim Superintendent Kristen McNeil on issues facing the school district, from the termination of former superintendent Traci Davis last summer to plans to reduce class sizes and its relationship with local charter schools.

UNR President Marc Johnson announced Thursday he would step down from his role in the top job effective June 2020 to transition to a role as a professor within the university’s economics department.

Nevada remains a bottom-dweller when it comes to ACT test scores, despite a modest increase posted by the state’s 2019 high school graduates.

Ben Nguyen, a teacher at Sunrise Mountain High School, won a prestigious Milken Educator Award — along with a $25,000 check — during a surprise ceremony Thursday morning. Gov. Steve Sisolak and state Superintendent Jhone Ebert attended the event.

Washoe County School District’s embattled former superintendent — who was terminated over the summer after being accused of leaking confidential information — could be assuming a principal role in Las Vegas.

In a letter sent to university administrators and acting President Marta Meana, UNLV’s Residence Hall Association (RHA) panned a decision to wait more than five days before releasing public information regarding the nature of a possible shooting threat to campus and demanded a formal apology from Meana.

According to a contract between the university and a booking agency representing Comey, the former FBI director’s September 24 visit to UNLV and speech to the university, “The Ethical Leader,” cost the university’s law school a pretty penny, but a spokeswoman for the university said that all costs were paid by a donor and that Comey reduced his normal speaking fee for the event.

Clark County commissioners approved $12 million to combat chronic absenteeism in public schools, but board members expressed skepticism that the school district would hold up its side of the proposed plan, getting principles and partners on board.

Just days after a threatening message was found scrawled on the stall of a UNLV bathroom, acting UNLV President Marta Meana defended the role of universities as a bastion of free speech, telling a crowd during her annual State of the University address Wednesday that “openness is a threat to those who would want to shrink our world.”

An effort to designate Indigenous Peoples Day on the same day as Columbus Day in Clark County failed in recent weeks, much to the disappointment of some Native Americans who say the holiday ignores harms caused by colonization.

State Superintendent Jhone Ebert has embarked on a listening tour through Nevada school districts and the State Public Charter School Authority. So far, she has visited schools in Douglas County, Carson City, Storey County and Clark County — with a goal of soliciting input for state education plans and guiding her work as superintendent.

The Nevada Department of Education releases the star ratings every September, often with fanfare for schools that achieved five stars or showed huge improvement. But how closely do parents monitor the results?

UNLV researchers are banking on nearly $1 million in federal grants for tools that they said could provide a more precise understanding of Nevada (how gold deposits ended up in the Carlin Trend), Mars and everything in between.

Survey results unveiled in September at campus forums come as the university is grappling with racist and discriminatory messaging found around the university in the first few weeks of the fall semester. There have been two separate incidents of swastikas being found at residence halls and flyers were also seen that promoted a white supremacist hate group. 

As part of UNR’s $21.6 million deal with Circus Circus for interim student housing after explosions mangled two residential dorms, the university and casino will avoid paying the normal 13.5 percent hotel room tax that would otherwise be collected from individuals staying in those rooms.