The Washoe County School Board of Trustees inked an employment contract Tuesday evening with Susan Enfield, making her selection as the district’s next superintendent official.

Though Democrats are expected to maintain control of both houses, Republicans are hoping to prevent a two-thirds supermajority (14 seats) that could have implications for tax increases.

The Clark County School District's school violence problem has some pointing out deficits in a 2019 law that they say, if addressed sooner, could have helped prevent a share of misconduct that’s occurring.

The Clark County School District is accepting student applications for a new school opening in August that focuses on construction technology and advanced manufacturing.

A violent attack on an Eldorado High School teacher by a student last week sent ripples of fear across Nevada’s largest school district.

Days after a student was arrested in connection with an attack of a teacher, Clark County School District leaders announced technology upgrades to promote safety, including a panic button of sorts for staff.

Nevada students say they're still dealing with the fallout from school closures and COVID-related class disruptions, which two years later continue to affect their education and physical and emotional health.

Burnout, lack of support and a sense among educators that their voices are going unheard at the highest district levels appear to be leading factors driving them from the classroom.

Graduation rates dipped in many states, including Nevada, in 2021. The Silver State posted an 81.31 percent graduation rate last year, down from 82.57 percent in 2020 and 84.11 percent in 2019.

The fast-spreading Omicron variant has complicated the quest to keep classrooms full, continuing learning disruptions nearly two years into the pandemic.

Increasing cases of COVID-19 in Nevada have continued to break records. In this edition of COVID in Context, we unpack the science of Omicron's spread and take a look at what's behind school staff shortages.

The district will call Friday a staff development day, with no instruction and staff required to work from home, while Tuesday will be considered a contingency day, with the same arrangement for staff and students. To compensate, Monday, Feb. 7 and Tuesday, April 25 will be full instructional days.

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.

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.

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.