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A Washoe County School District decision late Sunday to end a mask mandate for children 9 and under came as a surprise to many, including thousands of district teachers and area pediatricians.
In a call and email to parents Sunday night after 8 p.m., the district said it would no longer require masks for the district s youngest students who would typically fall in grades fourth and below.
In its statement Sunday night, the district said the decision that students 9 and younger did not have to wear masks inside or outside came from the Nevada Department of Education.
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The Senate Finance Committee approved SB439 late yesterday evening, just a day after lawmakers introduced the measure. It would officially implement the state’s new pupil-centered funding plan. It’s a mechanism lawmakers created in 2019 to shift K-12 funding from a traditional program and enrollment-based model toward one more focused on individual student needs.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert hailed the plan as the future of K-12 in Nevada.
“This work is difficult, but it couldn t it be more important than at this moment where we are currently redesigning the future of education,” she said while presenting the measure to lawmakers.
Nevada Special Education Teacher Named 2021 National Teacher of the Year
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WASHINGTON, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today announced that Juliana Urtubey, an elementary school special education teacher, is the 2021 National Teacher of the Year.
Urtubey, an educator for 11 years, teaches at Kermit R. Booker, Sr. Innovative Elementary School in Las Vegas, where she serves as a co-teacher in pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade special education settings and as an instructional strategist developing supports to meet students differing academic, social-emotional, and behavioral needs.
Known as Ms. Earth for her efforts to beautify schools and unify the community through murals and gardens, Urtubey has helped raise funds for garden programs at two Las Vegas schools. In one program, the garden was tended to by the student Garden Gnomies club and offered opportunities for innovative