Clark County School District

Our Anaya Collins tells us more.

The CCSD book bus stopped by Jack Daley Elementary and the A's hopped on to get students excited about reading.

Students loaded on to the bus and grabbed books from the mobile library, one of the district's initiatives to improve student literacy.

I think it feels awesome because I feel like if they see people, for lack of a better term I guess, that are bigger in the community reading and seeing stuff like that, maybe it's just something that will be interesting to them.

So maybe they'll be like, "You know, maybe it is kind of cool."

So having an opportunity like this for kids to come and get books and be able to build their home libraries so they're not just reading here at school, they're reading at home with their families, is so key to their development.

The Public Education Foundation delivered its first Classrooms in a Box for an autism and special needs classroom, and the A's have donated $30,000 to the foundation and $15,000 to CCSD to support the book bus.

For the Las Vegas Review-Journal, I'm Anaya Collins.

I think the most beautiful example is actually the year that Sandy and I started working together.

So Sandy started working in Las Vegas doing culture coaching and transformation in educational learning environments in Clark County School District-

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... right? Fifth co- fifth-largest county school dis- school district-

It's just not the schools.

We're having a problem with the parents, and, and most of your listeners have heard me say, "You know, the parents need to help out, too." And remember, we're over 60% of, uh, of, of parents being on welfare through the Clark County School District.

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In a city where Latinos make up more than a third of the population, mariachi music is so popular in schools that there often aren't enough teachers to meet demand.

The minor was created to train students to become mariachi educators in the Clark County School District, which has one of the largest mariachi programs in the US, with about six thousand students taking part.

Steven Blanco, who oversees the minor at UNLV and directs Las Vegas High School's Mariachi Joya, says mariachi was born out of joy and pride in Mexico, and its songs tell stories of pain, joy, love, and excitement.

He says you don't even have to speak Spanish to enjoy it.

The twenty-year-old Rodriguez Olivas says mariachi connects him to his roots since his family is from Mexico.

In high school, he was the student director of Mariachi Joya, which performed for Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in twenty twenty-one.

When he graduates in three years, he plans to go back to the Clark County School District to teach mariachi and give future generations the same opportunities he had.

The Las Vegas Aces are in San Francisco, October seventh, to take on the Golden State Valkyries in game two of the WNBA semifinals.

Yeah, I know.

I remember, uh, just recently I was at the Clark County School District, which is the fourth-largest school district in the United States.

A lot of people don't know this.

Clark County is where Las Vegas is, and they're having bad issues with, with teachers that are grooming students, and that wasn't a thing when I was in school.