In September, Charlotte Hill was one of three Nevada schools to be recognized as Blue Ribbon schools for 2021 — a national designation by the U.S. Department of Education.

Superintendents are leaving their posts in droves and bad behavior at school board meetings — now broadcast online for anyone to see — isn’t helping convince candidates to come forward.

With only one semester under the new policy, district officials caution against drawing too many conclusions from the change.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn the face mask requirement for Clark County School District students, though other legal challenges to the mandate remain pending.

Nearly 60 percent of nearly 5,000 votes tabulated in the special election voted against the measure proposing the Elko County School District take out $150 million in general obligation bonds for capital improvement funding.

Nevada Supreme Court judges heard oral arguments Monday in a case challenging the constitutionality of state funding for its K-12 education system, after a lower court dismissed the parent-led lawsuit last year.

Superintendent Jesus Jara announced Friday night that he will remain as leader of the Clark County School District, ending a two-week period of uncertainty following trustees’ decision last month to reverse his termination.

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.