On Wednesday, lawmakers heard and voted to advance a bill that would appropriate $64.5 million to replace the Owyhee Combined School on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada.

Carlene Pacheco never imagined she would work in education. But after graduating from college, she found herself gravitating toward jobs where she got a chance to work with students.

A bill that’s awaiting a final vote from the state Senate would set a definite date by which students must reach the age of 5 in order to enroll in kindergarten instead of the moving date in the law now.

Lawmakers are considering spending $43 million to continue providing Nevada students with free breakfast and lunch for the 2024-25 school year.

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office announced late Friday that his major school discipline bill would remain alive past a key bill deadline, while also vowing to veto a similar Democrat-backed bill without “significant changes.” 

SB231 — sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-Las Vegas) and Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) and co-sponsored by 34 other Democrats — would set aside $250 million from the state’s general fund, not the K-12 budget, to increase pay for licensed educators and paraprofessionals.

Despite not taking any action during a Tuesday meeting on a contentious transgender student policy, Douglas County School Board leaders say they are still committed to passing it even amid threats of a lawsuit.   

Sen. Roberta Lange (D-Las Vegas), chair of the Senate Education Committee, told The Nevada Independent on Tuesday that her committee would not have time to hear both bills ahead of a key bill deadline on Friday.

After a major education funding approval came down to party lines, an esoteric budget committee vote has turned into rich political fodder.

The Douglas County School Board is meeting Tuesday afternoon to consider creating a policy that would restrict access to sports and bathrooms for transgender students.

Even as lawmakers from both political parties have sought to claim credit for a $2 billion increase to the state’s biennial K-12 spending, the full joint legislative budget committee split along party lines (15-7) on Thursday in a vote to approve the formal allocation of those new dollars. 

Following reports of unsubstantiated social media threats and a shooting that left a staffer injured, Clark County school leaders are urging parents to keep an eye on their firearms and children’s online activity.

The increase has become central to both legislative Democrats and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo as each has jockeyed to take credit for efforts to improve the state’s public schools.

A day after a campus safety monitor was shot at an east Las Vegas school, lawmakers considered a bill that would establish a ratio for custodial and campus safety staff at Clark County school sites. 

Gov. Joe Lombardo drummed up support for his bill expanding the state’s  “Opportunity Scholarship” program during a Monday event at a Christian private school.

Three teams of fifth graders students from North Las Vegas competed last week in a 'Shark Tank'-style competition that taught them about what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

The Clark County Education Association and Assemblywoman Clara Thomas briefly faced off during a Tuesday hearing on a bill that would make principals at-will employees for their first three years in the role.

Even as Nevada Republicans and Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office have proposed the state’s largest expansion of school choice since 2017, legislative Democrats have signaled little appetite to touch a proposed increase of the state’s “Opportunity Scholarship” program. 

As the state struggles to recruit and retain teachers, a bill by Assemblywoman Brittney Miller (D-Las Vegas) would allow certain teachers to take one year off of evaluation. 

AB400 includes a school choice expansion, an Office of School Choice, expansion of teacher training pipelines and re-implementation of provisions that would hold back elementary students who can't read at grade level.