Down-ballot races heat up as aspiring officials compete for county commission, school board and city council seats across Nevada.

In this week's edition of the Indy Education newsletter, read about Clark County high school student who received a full-ride scholarship to Brown University.

In this week's Indy Education newsletter, learn about a Reno high school that's developing an academy that will take learning outdoor. Plus, a proposed policy by the Clark County School Board is coming under fire.

North Las Vegas’s city council is expected to reverse course on their appointment of Clark County high school teacher and City Councilman Isaac Barron to the district’s board of trustees amid legal questions.

In January, the Clark County School Board will ring in the new year with four nonvoting members who were appointed over the past two months.

Our spreadsheet and rolling updates show who is in and who is out for the dozens of Nevada Legislature seats on the ballot in 2024.

The Oakland A’s moved one step closer to securing their move to Las Vegas on Wednesday after the state Assembly voted 25-15 to pass a bill sending up to $380 million in public money toward a new baseball stadium.

Starting this week, it’ll be easier for Washoe County students to leave their assigned school and enroll at a different school in the district as long as their pick has space for them. 

With fewer than four days until the Legislature’s 120-day session ends June 5, lawmakers are finalizing bills, amendments and making last-minute deals in an attempt to get their legislation and the state budget across the finish line.

Here’s a look at which bills have passed (and failed) ahead of Friday’s deadline.

A bill is proposing to flip Nevada’s long-standing policy requiring parents to consent or opt-in for their children to receive sex education curriculum to instead opt out.

Fueled by concerns about headline-grabbing troubles at Nevada’s two largest school district boards, lawmakers are trying once more to create appointed seats on those governing bodies. 

Before COVID-19 swept through Nevada, wreaking havoc on hospitals and the health care system, the state was facing a critical shortage of nurses. Since the pandemic took hold, the shortage has reached dire levels.

As the results for the midterm election pour in, Democrats appear to be maintaining control of the Legislature, but they will likely fall short of hoped-for supermajorities in either house.

Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office on Wednesday criticized the actions of a politically connected COVID testing contractor that expanded in Nevada without proper licensing and yielded widely inaccurate test results.

Of the 63 newly drawn districts, only four place incumbents against one another. Almost half of those eight incumbents, however, are either termed out or not planning on running for reelection.

Democrats controlled both houses of the Legislature during the 2021 session, and hundreds of high-profile Democratic measures sailed through the Assembly and Senate while a vast majority of Republican-backed measures failed to make much headway in the legislative process.

Some of the higher-profile measures signed by Sisolak over the past two days include bills aimed at allowing collegiate athletes to receive compensation, lowering the penalties for minors caught in possession of alcohol or small amounts of marijuana, requiring teaching about minorities and historically underrepresented groups and raising the legal and age prerequisites for a person to become state attorney general.

The Assembly Ways and Means Committee approved AB416 Wednesday, a bill sponsored by the Assembly Education Committee that would authorize a legislative audit to comb through a specific slice of financial records for the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) dating back to fiscal year 2019.

The bill’s intent is straightforward — allow licensed veterinarians to practice telemedicine only after an in-person examination of an animal. Under the proposed bill, veterinarians would not have to examine every member of a herd to consult with a veterinarian, and a doctor with access to medical records could also consult on a case via remote communication.