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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Washoe County Superintendent Kristen McNeill, who shepherded the Reno-area school district through the fraught early days of the pandemic, will be stepping down at the end of the academic year.

Nevada students’ mathematics and English Language Arts skills tumbled since the pandemic began — mirroring and, in some cases, exceeding national downward trends.

The full-time return of in-person learning marked a pandemic milestone, but ongoing busing problems have complicated the logistics of simply getting students to and from school.

Low-income families with children will get a boost in their grocery budgets later this month, when the state distributes its first round of pandemic-related food assistance dollars for last school year.

Two days before school started in August, Nevada Learning Academy had accepted more than 4,200 full-time distance learning students but was continuing to enroll new students daily.

The 5-1 vote came after five hours of public testimony — the overwhelming majority of which was in opposition — and more than two hours of discussion.

If the first few days of the 2021-2022 school year are any indication, COVID-related difficulties and tensions are far from over.

In response to student stresses from pandemic-affected learning, several schools in Nevada are putting more effort into their mental health programs.

After years of keeping up with the region’s suburban sprawl, the Clark County School District is eyeing more projects that replace or modernize aging schools.

Nevada students said they felt the need to lobby for more inclusive instructional materials after discovering a slew of events they had not learned about in their U.S. History classes.