District enrollment down Count Day numbers are in and they are dismal. Whats more sad is that this was predicted,…
Halopoff out as tech chief
Breaking news this morning…Dr. Greg Halopoff is out as chief technology officer. He reportedly worked his last day this past…
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Ty’s Place begins to come together
(UPPER NORTH LAS VEGAS)–A group of students from the Class of 2021 gathered at the new Ty’s Place to decorate…
THE SUNDAY NEWS for 9/13/2020
Kit Carson namesake goes away After a contentious 90 minute discussion thus past Thursday evening, the Board of Trustees voted…
Keeping Them Honest (with COMMENTARY) for 9/13/2020
In another edition of Keeping Them Honest, where the objective is to unearth the spin of political attack ads so…
FOLLOW UP: Another website denounces Katie Williams
In response to our fiery story last week regarding Katie Williams losing her crown and being disqualified from pageant contention…
DAYSIDE for 9/10/2020
District gets food waiver District officials have secured a waiver from the USDA allowing the free distribution of food to…
DAYSIDE for 9/9/2020
Positive distance learning stories I am an elementary music specialist, starting my 5th full year of teaching. When people ask…
THE BIG STORY: Williams’ pageant disqualification calls ethics into question
The definition of ethics means moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity. Ethics goes…
NIGHTSIDE for 9/3/2020
Election 2020 briefs District B Trustee candidate Jeff Proffitt walked away today with a big endorsement from former 4th district…
NIGHTSIDE for 9/1/2020
Board work session tomorrow Your Board of Trustees will meeting for a work session tomorrow morning to talk governance. Considering…
NIGHTSIDE for 8/31/2020
Lee denies helping Brooks In response to a report over the weekend, officials with the Susie Lee campaign denied helping…
SUNDAY NEWS for 8/30/2020
Brooks receptive to Garvey’s idea (except it was Ford’s idea first) As usual, the fireworks happen at the end of…
More on the Susie Lee/Lola Brooks partnership
There’s more to the story. On the heels of a report earlier today surrounding a newfound coalition between Rep. Susie…
Reports: Susie Lee campaign helping Lola Brooks
School board trustee races are nonpartisan. I’ll say it again for Katie Williams…school board trustee races are nonpartisan. So is…
District data breach
Color me shocked… This, along with reports of major systems down again, including Infinite Campus and it’s been a BAD…
This parent thanks every damn teacher in this District (COMMENTARY)
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Because last night’s NightSide went out late last night, CCSW had a few requests to reprint this Commentary.…
NIGHTSIDE for 8/26/2020
Zoom Zoom. Now. Dammit. It’s not working. Google Meets is not working. We need to dump it now. Aside from…
NIGHTSIDE for 8/25/2020
Classrooms get hacked, parents get caught doing bad things Kids are getting caught doing bad things online and the parents…
NIGHTSIDE for 8/24/2020
By most accounts, it could have been a routine first day of school. And at many sites, it was. It…
Special EVENING REPORT for 8/23/2020
Some briefs that made it in too late for the Sunday News… District Guidance on recording lessons It came in…
SUNDAY NEWS for 8/23/2020
They lost everything As a result of the Canvas Chaos this past Friday, we’ve heard from several teachers who lost…
Friday Night Funnies for 8/21/2020
Just received this right after the Evening Report went out the door just minutes ago: It just caps off an…
EVENING REPORT for 8/21/2020
Canvas chaos With just three days to go before showtime, today has been the ultimate day from hell for most…
Canvas is broken (with UPDATES)
(Includes updates below) We’re getting multiple messages at this hour into the CCSW News Center that all teacher-created content on…
EVENING REPORT FOR 8/20/2020
Ch-ch-ch-changes With just four days to go before showtime, teachers, principals and parents are seething over a myriad of last-minute…
EVENING REPORT for 8/19/2020
CCSW endorses Proffitt for District B race We come to you tonight with a bit of breaking news. Earlier this…
EVENING REPORT for 8/18/2020
District gets in hot water for using racist reference in Canvas training This has caused a shitstorm all day, and…
EVENING REPORT FOR 8/17/2020
Major leadership changes on tap With just days to go before the start of school, District brass today announced several…
SUNDAY NEWS for 8/16/2020
Katie Williams accuses opponent Jeff Proffitt of…having endorsements? Yep, pretty much.Because over the past week, the District B trustee candidate…
Board president suppressed organic discussion on homeschooling
You’d think this Board of Trustees would start playing offense instead of defense. Especially after this week. Yeah, no. Instead,…
BOARD BRIEFS for 8/13/2020
From this evening’s Board of Trustees meeting, via the District: Trustees approve technology support for CCSD families Agenda Item 3.17…
The BIG Story: New NLV academy leaves many unanswered questions
Twenty-four hours after this story has had a chance to simmer, the bottom line is this: Folks meant well. But…
NLV, county officials create a school (with COMMENTARY)
City of North Las Vegas and Clark County officials joined forces today to unveil a new microschool. The all-new Southern…
SUNDAY NEWS for 8/9/2020
Brooks denies open meeting law violation in summarizing public comments The practice of summarizing the public’s emails to the Clark…
EVENING REPORT FOR 8/5/2020
Happy New Year Happy new year to all our educators, administrators and support staff. This year will look different but…
EVENING REPORT FOR 8/4/2020
Board president plays blame game It would be so much easier to own up to your shortcomings. But with just…
SUNDAY NEWS for 8/2/2020
Meeting fallout continues Days after an epic shitshow of a board meeting to prematurely decide the fate of Superintendent Dr.…
Jara pens letter to the community
After a contentious meeting yesterday to prematurely decide his fate which ended abruptly, District Superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara penned this…
Trustees, Jara speak
The fallout from today’s circus special board meeting continues. We have a statement from Trustees Cavazos, Ford and Young: And…
Meeting to decide Jara’s fate hastily ends with neither vote, nor discussion (with COMMENTARY)
Today, the Clark County School Board of Trustees punted the football and gave superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara “extra time.” In…
MIDDAY REPORT FOR 7/29/2020
In one hour After days of infighting, cat-fights on Twitter and the downright ugliness on public display, it will all…
MIDDAY REPORT for 7/27/2020
Editor’s Note on our headline last night Many of you are chiming in regarding the choice of words on our…
Did Lola Brooks call teachers “brain dead?” (with COMMENTARY)
About a year ago, Trustee president Lola Brooks slammed teachers during a Board meeting amidst a strike threat, saying they…
SUNDAY NEWS for 7/26/2020
Dots are connected If there was any doubt that Superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara and Tommy White of Local 872 Laborers…
Jara-Gate: the agenda
The agenda for the special meeting to decide superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara has been posted (see https://www.ccsd.net/trustees/pdf/agendas/07-29-20-agenda-pdf). The meeting is…
Katie Williams ties Jeff Proffitt to Jara-Gate and misses
District B trustee candidate Katie Williams fired shots…blanks tonight at her opponent Jeff Proffitt as she tried to tie him…
Jara’s food distribution plan took folks by surprise
If there was a solid plan in place for food distribution, building principals wish they were aware. Because apparently his…
EVENING REPORT for 7/23/2020
BREAKING NEWS: NIAA announces plans for sports We begin this evening with breaking news… the NIAA has released a preliminary…
EVENING REPORT for 7/22/2020
BREAKING NEWS: The superintendent was served We start with breaking news…Clark County School Watch has learned the superintendent of schools…
MIDDAY REPORT (with COMMENTARY) for 7/22/2020
From the Twitterverse with some of the best of the best over the past 12 or so hours: These meetings.…
CCSD goes distance learning
In another ridiculous display of antics for 5 1/2 hours, the Board of Trustees approved a distance learning program for…
EVENING REPORT for 7/20/2020
Statement from CCSD regarding the provisional Reopening Our Schools plan “Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, during the Clark County School…
Staff to recommend full-time distance education
Literally in the last few minutes, BoardDocs was updated with just a handful of reference material for tomorrow’s Board of…
MIDDAY REPORT for 7/20/2020
Where are the docs? Apparently, for tomorrow’s Board of Trustees meeting, the agenda documents are MIA… nowhere to be found.…
SUNDAY NEWS for 7/19/2020
Epilogue on Katie Williams Our piece on Trustee B candidate Katie Williams has been trending on our website, to say…
Katie Williams speaks to CCSW
The last time Katie Williams spoke to Clark County School Watch officially was back on April 24 in the Trustee…
COMMENTARY: Time to have some hard conversations
The District doesn’t do crisis management very well. Last year around this time, we were going through the deans crisis,…
CCEA responds to CCASAPE call for Jara to resign
Jara-Gate ain’t over yet. Now comes CCEA who tells the administrator’s union (CCASAPE) to back off, calling this morning’s statement…
Admins tell Jara: Time to go
The administrators who make up the Clark County Association of School Administrators and Professional-Technical Employees under executive director Stephen Augspurger…
EVENING REPORT for 7/15/2020
Jara fallout continues The question of the day is this: what do the current trustees think of Jara-Gate? If they…
Letter to the editor: Dear Governor…
Dear Governor Sisolak, I’m a teacher and a mom in Las Vegas and I’m writing to you today because educators…
EVENING REPORT for 7/14/2020
Was a fib told on the NDE deadline also? There seem to be doubts on whether Dr. Jesus Jara and…
Ebert, Sisolak slam Jara
Folks…this is bad. CARSON CITY, NV – Today, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and Nevada Department of Education Superintendent of Public…
The smoking gun
Clark County School Watch just obtained the email that was cited in the RJ article and the source of last…
Patterns continue to emerge
The case continued to build long before the special session even got underway. Now comes the Review-Journal (see https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/school-district-behind-controversial-funding-bill-2073401/) who…
MIDDAY REPORT for 7/13/2020
LA and SD going online only Breaking news from SoCal…LA Unified and San Diego Unified will start the new school…
What are the charters doing on Reopening
Clark County School Watch got a hold of Somerset Academy’s reopening plans. And while we don’t cover the charters much…
SUNDAY NEWS for 7/12/2020
Real damage upstate Yesterday had the propensity of doing some real damage. And as a result, folks around the Valley…
Drama with AB2 runs deep, and it’s only part of the story
[Editor’s Note: We don’t usually break news late on a Saturday night, but trust me, you’ll want to read this…all…
Racially disturbing images found with Brinley MS staff member
A litany of racially disturbing images were unearthed this week involving a staff member at Brinley MS in Northwest Las…
Parents plan, teachers revolt following contentious vote
Some teachers said they are checking their wills and their life insurance. Meanwhile, some parents are using it as a…
MIDDAY REPORT for 7/9/2020
This vote will be close With just hours to go before a likely contentious vote on a proposed reopening plan,…
EVENING REPORT for 7/8/2020
This Evening Report is all about Jesus. No, not that Jesus. This Jesus ⬆️⬆️⬆️ Jesus spoke, Jesus wept I would…
MORNING REPORT for 7/8/2020
The long-awaited CCEA response In a nutshell, they support either 5 days a week in the classroom or 5 days…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Human factors matter in crafting a plan
The superintendent’s address in July of last year was kicking off a year about the human factor. Treating people well.…
WEEKEND NEWS for 7/4/2020
Ford’s call for suggestions was answered When Trustee Danielle Ford put out the call for suggestions and feedback on the…
PRESS RELEASE: Jara, Brooks take a site tour
CCSD Board President Brooks and Superintendent Jara visit schools with Certified Industrial Specialist District continues to facilitate solutions to community…
Black Fathers Matter commentary goes national
Yesterday’s commentary on black fathers (see https://clarkcountyschoolwatch.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/commentary-black-fathers-matter/) was picked up nationally by HillReporter.com. My moment of rage and anger quickly…
(COMMENTARY)–Black fathers matter
I try really really really hard not to mention RJ “columnist” Victor Joecks that much here on CCSW. After all,…
MIDDAY REPORT for 6/30/2020
Special called meeting The Board of Trustees will hold a special called meeting next Monday, July 6 at 4pm to…
Wright doubles down on Ford criticisms
Trustee Deanna Wright is not letting up on her criticisms against her Board colleague, Danielle Ford. Wright sent another statement…
NEA-SN expresses reopening concerns
Officials with NEA-SN today sent a letter to Superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara and the Board of Trustees expressing deep concerns…
Movement full speed ahead to defund CCSDPD
There is a movement that’s forging ahead to see the Clark County School District Police Department “defunded.” At the very…
SUNDAY NEWS for 6/28/2020
Fireworks with Wright and Ford As usual, the fireworks that occur during the Board of Trustees meeting seems to occur…
ADVERTISEMENT: Dip Your Toes into Canvas webinar series
By Karlana Kulseth It breaks my heart how many teachers are upset in using Canvas as their learning management system…
Perspectives debuts tomorrow, Saturday programming note
Tomorrow, Friday, June 26 is the debut of our new show, Perspectives. Perspectives is our new show made up of…
GUEST POST: CCSD Reopening for 20-21 School Year
By Karlana R. Kulseth, M.Ed. Before I dive into my analysis of CCSD’s recent release of their proposal of the…
Here’s the plan…right here
The public sentiment seemed mixed, almost down the middle on whether they support or oppose the District’s Reopening plan. Released…
BREAKING NEWS: Reopening plan leaked
A possible plan to reopen schools was leaked this morning in the form of a piece from the Associated Press.…
Sisolak issues emergency directive on licensure
Today, Governor Steve Sisolak issued an emergency directive eliminating gaps in teacher hiring and licensure renewals. The directive also extends…
Summer of Fun-Raiser
Since our spring Fun-Raiser just weeks ago, we’ve decided to keep our donor portal open. Since then, CCSW has been…
Rael named Western HS principal
Clark County School Watch has learned that Antonio Rael was just named the new principal of Western HS. Rael takes…
SUNDAY NEWS for Father’s Day, 2020
Teachers get sh*t done Reopening Committee? Nahhh…sit a few teachers and stakeholders down in a room for 90 minutes and…
CCSW makes a powerful statement with 200,000
Yesterday, Clark County School Watch hit another milestone with its 200,000th unique visitor to clarkcountyschoolwatch.wordpress.com. It’s a very very big…
Ford questioned superintendent’s contract despite criticism from Brooks
It’s no secret that there has been bad blood between Trustees Danielle Ford and Lola Brooks for a while now.…
COMMENTARY–why does spoken Spanish offend you?
[Editor’s Note: the demand for the Commentary in last night’s Evening Report was extremely high. As a result, CCSW decided…
EVENING REPORT for 6/16/2020
Trustee Vote totals With just one more day of vote counting to go, there’s been a bit of movement in…
MORNING REPORT for 6/15/2020
CCEA recognizes injustices The Clark County Education Association today released a statement discussing the racial justice protests nationwide and its…
SUNDAY NEWS for 6/14/2020
Trustee runoffs begin to take shape With just a couple of days left to count votes, there hasn’t been much…
