Archive for October, 2009

Washoe County School District Announces Major Changes

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Change is never easy, but Washoe County Schools have a lot riding on their ability to increase graduation rates and raise student achievement in Northern Nevada.
Today the Washoe County School District announced a reorganization at its central office, three months after Heath Morrison took over as superintendent.  Since arriving in August, Morrison has been talking [...]

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Local School Leaders Look to Vegas for Innovative Funding Ideas

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Leaders from the Washoe County school district traveled to Las Vegas recently to find out how Clark County is doing with a privately-funded, experimental program that gives individual schools more authority over decisions and more responsibility for their performance.
WCSD Superintendent Dr. Heath Morrison was part of a small group from Northern Nevada that attended an [...]

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It Doesn’t Get Much Better than This

Friday, October 16th, 2009

If you had to pick the perfect weather, the perfect place to be, I’m not sure you could do much better than right now in Northern Nevada.  A friend who was in town attending a conference recently, called his wife in Washington, D.C. to brag about the beautiful weather here.  Sure, they have the cherry [...]

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Foreign Journalists Visit Northern Nevada to Discuss Media and Democracy

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Thirteen  journalists from the Middle East and North Africa are spending a week in Northern Nevada, getting to know their American counterparts and learning about how media works in a democracy, thanks to the prestigious Edward R. Murrow program which is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and hosted at the University of  Nevada, Reno.
The [...]

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