Though the governor's office confirmed Friday that NSHE employees were included in a new policy for state employees requiring vaccination or weekly tests, the status of a possible student mandate remains unknown.

The Nevada Independent sat down with CSN President Federico Zaragoza to discuss how the institution will manage the virus this school year and what role the college could play in retooling the state's workforce.

Students and staff will have to pack masks for the first day of school after the district announced all “students and staff are required to wear face masks indoors, unless medical or developmental conditions prohibit use.”

The leaders of a UNR-based program that sets middle schoolers on a path toward college wants to use new federal funding to help similar organizations across the state.

As school supplies fill store aisles and August inches closer, it’s unclear whether face masks should be added to back-to-school shopping lists.

Top administrators from UNR and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced a new partnership Tuesday afternoon.

“The issue has been that the free-and-reduced lunch data we collect… is also used for a lot of other things, including grants and Title I and all these different other funding sources for the school districts,” said Pete Etchart, chief operating officer for Washoe County School District.

UNR President Brian Sandoval said an agreement for UNR to acquire Sierra Nevada University remained in early stages, with a likely months-long approval process still pending.

Under a new grading policy debuting in the Clark County School District this year, students can bid goodbye to the dreaded zero. But not everyone is happy about the changes.

A new political action committee affiliated with Henderson City Councilman and mayoral candidate Dan Stewart is reigniting the push to break up the Clark County School District.

We sat down with the president of Desert Research Institute to discuss how COVID affected work in the midst of ongoing climate and resource challenges, and what is next for the state’s sole research institution.

The Nevada African American Administrators and Superintendents Association, which launched last month, aims to continue diversifying school leadership across the state.

Administrators, officials and lobbyists in the orbit of Nevada’s higher education system shared a common refrain coming out of this year’s legislative session: It could have been worse.

In a coda to more than 10 months of negotiations, officials from the UNR School of Medicine and Reno-area health care giant Renown Health finalized a 50-year-long affiliation agreement during a signing ceremony at Renown Regional Medical Center on Monday.

School districts across the nation and in Nevada are facing critical bus driver shortages — among other hiring difficulties — as they prepare for the upcoming academic year.

Members of the Interim Finance Committee met Tuesday to authorize the governor’s office to accept the full ARP allotment and designate allocations of more than $76 million in federal aid programs, including $39.5 million in rental assistance, $12.1 million in homeowner assistance and $13.9 million for the Department of Education to ensure federal relief funds are properly administered.

Flanked by Gov. Steve Sisolak and more than a dozen state and local officials, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced a near-$4 million federal grant for apprenticeships in Nevada.

The Pupil-Centered Funding Plan — which was created during the 2019 Legislature and is being implemented for the upcoming biennium — essentially does away with categorical grants by consolidating them and sending the money to school districts through different methods.

The Board of Regents met for two days this week to hash out a host of higher education issues in the wake of a busy legislative session that saw operational budgets slashed even as personnel budgets were spared.

The Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve a 1.75 percent base-pay increase for College of Southern Nevada faculty Thursday — nearly one year to the day after the Board of Regents signed off on a collective bargaining agreement while deferring the raise in the midst of last year’s COVID-19 shutdowns.