It shouldn't be controversial or anti-democratic to request resources for our communities' most vulnerable members. Financial, food, housing and medical assistance programs are all crucial for ensuring the safety and stability of our neighborhoods.

Sen. Roberta Lange (D-Las Vegas) criticized a state-commissioned report, saying the analysis of her film tax credit bill had “flawed and misleading conclusions.”

In this edition of Behind the Bar, we explore the lack of funding for universal pre-K and raises for state union workers.

In today's edition, Gov. Joe Lombardo will only sign legislation that “protects school choice and expands opportunity," an effort to punish death threats on the campaign trail and new measure seeks to address high teacher vacancy rates.

Nevada students live in two different worlds: one where students have the opportunity to apply to attend one of 19 high-end magnet high schools, and the other where they are forced to go to class in their centuries-old school with asbestos.

Workers aren’t booted from the insurance program for low-income families if they have a job, but critics say it’s a quiet subsidy for profitable corporations.

Officials have remained relatively mum in public on the prospect of renewing the funding, which passed with all but one Republican assemblyman opposed, but there appears to be a desire for renewal on both sides of the aisle.

Middle school STEM students learn that F1 race cars are high-tech driving machines. Also, Reid Airport has added a reserved parking program.

Learning social skills at school — the most structured social learning environment — is difficult for any child with autism ' ... so having their therapist with them in school where they are trying to learn these behaviors would greatly assist children ... .'”

The district plans will use its unassigned ending fund balance to offset the potential district level shortfall and will not asking schools to use carry-forward funds from the prior year. 

What the officials have yet to acknowledge is how much the decision affects the community. It serves as a rallying point and meeting place for residents who have participated in programs and fundraisers that benefit the school.

The Nevada Future of Learning Network and the convening prioritize the benefits and challenges of the Portrait of a Nevada Leaner implementation, centering on the significance of personalized, competency-based learning.

The true cost of these book banning attempts does not end with our freedoms as Americans. This process recently cost taxpayers approximately $5,000 in salaries and time for one book challenge at one valley high school.

A former teacher who suffered life-threatening injuries after she was attacked by a student at Eldorado High School in Las Vegas has filed a lawsuit nearly two years later.

The state’s open meeting law doesn't result in more transparent deliberation. Instead, it empowers a series of unaccountable and unelected middlemen to communicate and coordinate on behalf of the officials.

From the moment he was hired in 2018, it was evident that Clark County schools Superintendent Jesus Jara didn’t have broad support. But after a motion to hire an internal candidate failed, the board turned its sights to Jara.

The Clark County School Board on Thursday approved Superintendent Jesus Jara’s new resignation terms, which include a one-time lump sum payment of $250,000, half the amount he had initially asked for.

The findings underscore the difficulty in recruiting and retaining experienced teachers in higher-needs schools, one of several factors that keep these schools from improving.

Jara said his resignation was contingent on the board approving a contract amendment that would grant him a severance package that includes a year’s worth of salary, about $400,000, and other benefits.

In this week's edition of the Indy Education newsletter, read about Clark County high school student who received a full-ride scholarship to Brown University.