Nevada’s Democratic leaders say they’re worried recent guidance from the Trump administration could rescind unspent funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, according to comments made during a Wednesday meeting.

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A few years before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dale Rice lost a toe to infection.

The Nevada Department of Education (NDE) said the latest results from Nevada students in a nationwide assessment report card were “cause for concern.” According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 report card,

The State of Nevada should consider the possibility of the Trump administration attempting to claw back millions of dollars in unspent American Rescue Plan Act funds, Democratic leaders warned Wednesday.

While Mississippi did not make any major waves in math or reading in 2024 compared to 2022, scores in some categories did improve.

After years of struggling to secure funding, Nevada agencies have begun to take steps to implement language services — known as “language access plans” — for those with limited English proficiency as required by state and federal law.

Hoping to comply with federal law, the state committed more than $200 million to overhaul a children’s behavioral health system that ranked last in the nation.

That was its fastest rate of population growth since July 2019 (1.7%), just before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to census data. However, it was still below the population boom Nevada saw from 2015 to 2018. County-level data from the census won’t be ...

Funds distributed to school districts were intended to spur academic recovery, teacher effectiveness and classroom supports schools needed after closures and long-term operational changes.

The vast majority of homicides in the United States are carried out with a firearm. Approximately 70% of all known murder cases in the last 5 years involved a gun, according to FBI data. But of all criminal offenses included in the FBI’s violent crime rate,

The Indian government has spent over Rs 54 lakh crore on capital expenditure in the past 11 years, according to a report by Systematix Institutional Equities.