As only one of two educators in county dedicated solely to a school's P.E. program, man says he's at 'mercy of fundraisers.'
Obama seeks money, interventions to stem dropouts President Barack Obama took aim Monday at the nation’s school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and education districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter thei...
Tourism scholarship is available to seniors Cowboy Country, the tourism organization that promotes northeastern Nevada, is seeking high school seniors in Nevada who plan to pursue a degree in a tourism-related field to apply for a $1,000 sc...
Schools in brief District offers financial class Thursday The Washoe County School District will offer the three-hour class, “Building Your Financial Portfolio on $25 a Month” on Thursday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. F...
TMCC hosting open house night Thursday for high students Truckee Meadows Community College will host a spring open house on Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the TMCC Dandini Campus in the student center at 7000 Dandini Blvd.
Veterans Day is a day for remembering and honoring those who serve our country. Although Veterans Day is a holiday in the Washoe County School District, a number of schools are planning ceremonies ...
Laura White is currently teaching her fourth grade class at Alice Maxwell Elementary School the concept of order of operations in math. To help check their work, they’ve been using large calculator...
All was quiet for a few seconds until the beginning notes of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” began to fill the Bud Beasley Elementary School multipurpose room – then the young undead came to life.
POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave as her parents vowed to dedicate themselves to protecting children from sex predators....
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) -- Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told her family they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps....
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries....
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager....
HEBRON, Ky. (AP) -- Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero....
HONOLULU (AP) -- Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii....