A program at UNLV is helping to paraprofessionals or school support professionals working in the Clark County School District or a Nevada charter school reach their goals of being licensed teachers.

This week on Indy Education, learn about a welding class in Ely that's attracting more female students and students interested in picking up the skills as a back up career opportunity.

In this week's Indy Education, read about an North Las Vegas elementary school's broadcast newscast that's like "morning announcements on steroids."

Although Nevada’s graduation rate has remained fairly steady for the past two years — at about 81 percent — State Superintendent of Public Education Jhone Ebert said she is optimistic improvements are coming.

In this week's edition of the Indy Education newsletter, learn about a Carson City teen who's help immigrant students feel welcome in their new school, and a new podcast by a former Clark County School Board member.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a rotating cast of the state’s top K-12 education officials presented to lawmakers this week, two words came up more than any others: funding and accountability. 

Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly announced a proposal to add $250 million to the state’s education budget to help provide raises for Nevada teachers and address a record number of vacancies.

In 2023, in spite of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s fierce criticism of the Steve Sisolak administration on the campaign trail, he kept even more. Ten out of the 17 cabinet appointments announced by Lombardo Friday were Sisolak holdovers

Across 54 Sisolak promises in the tracker, The Nevada Independent tracked 37 as “completed,” 10 as “failed” and six considered “compromised,” with one more left as “in progress.”

An interim legislative committee approved more than $75 million in federal aid money for universal free meals in Nevada’s K-12 schools on Tuesday.

The Nevada Supreme Court has sided with a lower court judge in dismissing a parent-led lawsuit aimed at dramatically improving K-12 education funding in the state.

A Washington state education leader has been selected as the Washoe County School District’s next superintendent. If she formally accepts, Susan Enfield will be the district's fifth superintendent in the past 10 years.

Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert is among five finalists vying to become the next superintendent of the Washoe County School District.