Charter schools are not just an alternative option in Nevada’s educational landscape; they are a vital component of our public education ecosystem. They offer diverse, flexible and innovative approaches to meet the unique needs of students across the state.

After taking a closer look at the issues, we can see how $2.5 million would not be helpful in addressing most of them. But do phone bags solve the issue of low educational attainment?

In this week's Indy Education newsletter, read about White Pine Middle School students who've published three papers on double stars, and are working on two more.

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

Officials with the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) announced Tuesday they’re launching a $10 million state-funded grant program that will provide resources to 20,000 classrooms. 

Commercial curriculum, arbitrary seat time, one-size-fits-all pathways and unreasonable expectations that every student will attend college are the realities of today. Our students want their voices heard, seen and valued.

Chronic absenteeism rates ticked down slightly in the 2022-2023 school year but remain much higher than before the pandemic. Officials said the pandemic fostered a decrease in student engagement.

More than half of Nevada’s public schools reported proficiency loss in English and science in the 2022-23 school year compared with the year before.

The Acing Accountability initiative, will assess math proficiency and literacy rates across school districts and charter schools. It will also measure how prepared high school graduates are for success.

Removal of burdensome and unnecessary barriers will effectively and seamlessly get high-quality teachers into classrooms with students who most need them.

A new website by NDE shows how school officials statewide invested the historic amount of funding to help students and staff navigate the pandemic, but questions remain on what will happen to those initiatives when the funds run out.

Humboldt County School District and others had to cut their budgets as part of a $27.4 million state sweep of funds they received last year from their counties’ tax revenue collected from mining operations. 

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

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. 

The Clark County School District has unveiled a plan that would add optional dual language programs to its overall language development approach, though the idea still needs approval from the Clark County School Board of Trustees.

Recently approved legislation directs the Nevada Department of Education to review the tests students are taking for their educational benefits, their costs and any redundancies in the information, skills or abilities measured.

The Senate Finance Committee took a step Tuesday night toward fully implementing the new K-12 education funding formula despite repeated concerns raised about the lack of additional revenue.

When the pandemic hit, schooling changed, businesses temporarily closed and state revenue cratered. In the process, the school funding discussions adopted a more measured tone. Now, restoring and preserving funding has emerged as the immediate concern.

Across Nevada, 82.6 percent of students in the Class of 2020 graduated, down 1.5 percentage points from the prior year, according to data released Thursday by the Nevada Department of Education.