Last week, the North Las Vegas City Council approved unanimously a plan to extend its Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy (SMUMA) into 2021. This first-of-its-kind public-private partnership between one of Nevada’s fastest-growing cities, and perhaps the municipality hardest hit by the pande...
Presentation to the Coalition of Public Independent Charter Schools Charter schools are generally smaller and less bureaucratic, so generally thought to be well positioned to respond to and navigate through these unprecedented times nimbly and quickly. Are they and will they? This is easier said t...
The Meadows School this week announced its Windsong Trust Scholarship program. Thanks to the generosity of the Windsong Trust and the Andre Agassi Foundation, the prestigious Las Vegas private school will provide scholarships for five incoming kindergarten children for the 2021-22 school year, wit...
More than half of students, 55.6%, enrolled in state charter schools attend 4- or 5-Star schools, the highest ratings awarded by the Nevada School Performance Framework. This compares with 30.2% of all Nevada public schools students. This group of 486,885 students included the 41,823 at state ch...