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.

“If you’re not voting for me, you’re voting for Steve Sisolak,” Lombardo said at the event at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas. 

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.

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.

Nevada's diverse leadership drew elected leaders from Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Florida and California seeking to learn how the state helps underserved populations.

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.

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.

The $2.8 million spent on lobbying activities in 2021 marked the first time since 2005 that spending dipped below $3 million, and represented roughly 72 percent of lobbying expenditures reported during the 2019 session.

The process for creating an anti-racism policy has not been swift, nor has it been without the vitriol — and misguided mentions of critical race theory — permeating similar discussions nationwide.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.