Nevada bill would bar offensive school mascots, place names
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SAM METZMarch 10, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2012, file photo, UNLV s mascot Hey Reb! attends an NCAA college basketball game against San Diego State in Las Vegas. Nevada lawmakers are considering legislation that would require schools to get rid of racially discriminatory logos and mascots and require officials to push for the renaming of mountains, trails or any other geographic points with racially offensive names. The bill, which is scheduled to have its first hearing Tuesday, March 9, 2021, comes in the wake of a national reckoning over race that s led to school and professional sports teams dropping their mascots. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)
Nevertheless, on October 20, 2020, Nevada Gold Mines – “the unholy alliance between transnational mining giants Barrick and Newmont,” as liberal blogger Hugh Jackson puts it – donated $250,000 to Home Means Nevada PAC, and on December 21, 2020 it kicked in another $250,000.
So we’re looking at a half-million dollars from Big Mining to a PAC that does the bidding of Nevada Democrats. And how did Home Means Nevada spend its dough in the fall leading up to Election Day?
Well, it donated $250,000 to the Nevada State Democrat Party and another $100,000 to the Nevada Senate Democrats caucus.
It also maxed out at $10,000 each to the Democrats’ three competitive state Senate candidates on the ballot: Kristee Watson, Wendy Jauregui-Jackins and Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro.
Clark County School District reopens with aim of returning 325,000 students to classrooms
Clark County School District (CCSD), the fifth largest district in the US which serves roughly 325,000 students in the Las Vegas, Nevada metro area, resumed in-person learning for pre-kindergarten through third grade students last Monday, March 1. Over 40,000 students returned to schools with another 50,000 continuing to learn remotely as part of the district’s hybrid model, meant to prepare a full return to in-person learning in April. Along with the students, 3,000 teachers returned to teach on campus last week with 1,500 still teaching remotely.
The return to school involves three cohorts of students categorized as cohort A, cohort B and cohort C. Students in cohort A come to school on Mondays and Tuesdays, with Cohort B coming to school on Wednesdays and Thursdays, while cohort C is currently remote-only. Cohorts A and B will learn remotely those days of the week they’re not on campus.
School election results for March 9
EAST IDAHO (KIFI) - Four school board members will keep their positions after an attempt to remove them failed.
Pocatello-Chubbuck School District board trustees Jackie Cranor, Janie Gebhardt, and Dave Mattson were up for recall because of their handling of the hybrid schedule and the changing of the Pocatello Indians mascot.
Idaho Falls School District 91 board member Elizabeth Cogliati also will keep her seat.
While many of the supplemental levies were approved by voters, Bonneville School District 93 s supplemental levy and plant facilities levy failed.
Meanwhile, two school bonds did pass in Bingham County. The Blackfoot School District will use the bond to replace Stoddard Elementary and create an atrium at Blackfoot High School. The Shelley School District will use their bond to renovate Goodsell Elementary school and other repairs at buildings in the school district.