Classes had barely begun Wednesday morning at Eldorado High School when four teenage boys found themselves lined up in front of Metro Police vehicles as officers conducted an investigation. The initiative — dubbed “Safe Zone” — involved a partnership between Metro Police and Clark County School District Police.

With the dust hardly settled days after major Democratic victories in Nevada’s midterm elections, education advocacy groups have already begun jockeying for position and funding ahead of the state’s 2019 legislative session. Within days of Tuesday’s results, a pro education choice group released a celebratory statement congratulating Democrat and Republican candidates alike for victories on Tuesday, ahead of its planned effort to push for funding of a state program giving tax credits to businesses in exchange for contributions to a private school scholarship program.

Lobbyists working for the Clark County School Board said the outcome of the midterm election could bode well for local education requests given that the governor-elect and both legislative leaders are from Southern Nevada.

The leader of the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority sent a letter to Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday announcing his resignation. Patrick Gavin, who has served as executive director since 2014, said his last day will be Dec. 28.

Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt has largely stayed out of a fray about whether to give students more recourse if they’re subject to a predatory lender, even as hundreds of Nevada students who attended shuttered for-profit colleges have unresolved claims for debt relief and as attorneys general in other states have filed several lawsuits trying to boost borrower protections.

The freewheeling question-and-answer session with the superintendent came during the 2018 African American Student Summit, which brought together black student unions from across the district. More than 500 high school students attended the event that was intended to foster dialogue about diversity, cultural awareness and equity

Education officials usually aren’t keen on interrupting learning time, but on Monday morning, they had good reason to burst into Richard Knoeppel’s classroom. He’s the 2019 Nevada Teacher of the Year. Knoeppel teaches architectural design at Advanced Technologies Academy, where he has worked for 23 years.

A Las Vegas high school recently installed a high-tech version of a safety feature common to almost any home or apartment — a doorbell. Now, when visitors arrive at the blue metal doors that serve as the building’s main entry-point, a sign greets them: “Welcome to Sierra Vista High School. Please ring bell.”

There’s an election around the corner that could shake up a school board that has been described by observers as petty and inefficient. Three seats are up for grabs. At least one newcomer will join the board because Edwards is termed out. Child and Cavazos, meanwhile, are campaigning to retain their seats.

The Clark County School District announced Friday that staff and administrators will begin conducting random searches of students using metal-detector wands to combat the recent spike in firearms found on campuses.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt argues that he has the tools to extract funding for the controversial Education Savings Accounts program from a Democratic-controlled Legislature because he was able to get bipartisan support for dealing with elder fraud and a backlog of untested rape kits.

Clark County education officials could pull the plug on several low-performing, district-sponsored charter schools by revoking or terminating their contracts. That’s one of the options under consideration by Superintendent Jesus Jara and the Clark County School Board of Trustees following the recent release of school performance information.

A grassroots-style coalition that formed earlier this year to address education funding concerns has received the Clark County School Board of Trustees’ support.

Employees of several Clark County School District bargaining groups will receive a one-time 3 percent bonus based on their salaries after tentative contract agreements were reached between district and union leaders, officials announced Thursday afternoon.

The Department of Justice has awarded Nevada more than $1 million to boost school security through improved threat assessment and more mental health training.

“We should learn from what’s happened,” said David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at the University of Southern California, who assisted school officials shortly after the shooting and was again training adults in Las Vegas last week on how to help children cope. “You want the events focused on healing and honoring but not recreating.”

A policy document created by school district superintendents that outlines education priorities for the upcoming legislative session gained the Clark County School Board of Trustees’ approval Thursday night.

Nevada Virtual Academy’s underperforming elementary program will close at the end of the 2018-2019 school year, officials from the online charter school said this week. The closure announcement comes on the heels of school ratings released by the Nevada Department of Education earlier this month.