A prominent Las Vegas couple who recently won a lawsuit against the Clark County School District on behalf of their dyslexic daughter host a free special education forum. Open to parents, teachers and community members, the event will take place January 14-15, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm in Sonoma Ballroom C and D of the […]
CLAREMONT – Claremont school district reorganization proposal moves ahead next month despite strong public opposition and concerns about the district’s readiness for budget talks. More than 60 residents attended a public forum Monday to discuss the school district’s ambitious proposal to restructure its three elementary schools from overlapping K-5 programs into a single, interconnected system. […]
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank estimated that more than half of children in low- and middle-income countries were not getting the basic reading skills necessary to support future learning. The pandemic has exacerbated this global learning crisis, with more than 100 million additional children estimated to fall below the minimum level of […]
As a neurodivergent person myself who has gone through the school system here, Kooi Xiu Min’s letter resonates with me (Make the classroom a more inclusive space for neurodivergent students, July 5th). Schools should apply the spirit, not the letter, of the school rules. Neurodivergent students, whose brains are wired differently, need slightly different school […]
