Education

Carson City Library will host its first Bionics Camp for Carson City middle school students on three Saturdays in February.

Nevada Humanities will spend the first months of 2021 continuing a community dialogue around civic engagement with the Why It Matters initiative.

The annual Cattlemen’s Update, an industry event to share market, production and research updates with Nevada’s ranchers, will be hosted via Zoom.

Nevada’s publicly financed charter schools have been able to shore up operations with millions of dollars from the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to help businesses and nonprofits.

The Washoe County School Board has decided to extend distance learning for middle and high schools in the Reno area until at least Jan. 19 partly because of a shortage of teachers.

Travel Nevada hosts a flag design contest for Nevada fourth graders with a chance to meet the governor.

Nevada System of Higher Education institutions will use a pass/fail, or satisfactory/unsatisfactory, system for grading throughout the 2020-2021 academic year.

Nevada voters decided against changing the way state colleges and universities are governed under the Nevada constitution, voting down a ballot initiative that proposed removing the Board of Regents from the state constitution.

A national search for a new leader for Nevada State College was approved this week by Nevada System of Higher Education’s (NSHE) Board of Regents.

Nevada’s Ballot Question 1 could remove the NSHE Board of Regents from the constitution if passed, changing governance of higher education in the state.