CCSD students return to classrooms for first day of school

More than 300,000 Clark County School District students started a caller schoolhouse twelvemonth connected Monday.

Schools are operating with full-time in-person classes for each people levels. There are besides region learning options astatine 12 schools and done the online Nevada Virtual Academy astatine CCSD.

Schools Superintendent Jesus Jara and Jennifer Vobis, manager of transportation, kicked disconnected a engaged time conscionable aft 5 a.m. astatine the district’s Arville Transportation Yard, sending hundreds of autobus drivers connected their mode to transport kids conscionable arsenic the prima was starting to rise.

“Today is simply a large day,” Jara said. “Aug. 9, opening schoolhouse for our kids, bringing each of our students back, look to look with our teachers and our educators, truthful we are excited. Parents close now, I’d inquire you to beryllium flexible. We are going to unfastened up our schools, bash a large job. Our unit is ready. Ready to invited our students to person a large twelvemonth successful our classrooms.”

School territory officials besides were to sojourn Kelly and Warren simple schools, Mack Middle School and Shadow Ridge High School, and enactment successful ribbon-cutting ceremonies astatine 2 caller schools — Gunderson Middle School successful Las Vegas and Brown Elementary School successful Henderson.

Superintendent Jesus Jara was scheduled to springiness an update astatine noon astir the archetypal time of school.

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Contact Julie Wootton-Greener at jgreener@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2921. Follow @julieswootton connected Twitter. Review-Journal unit writer Glenn Puit contributed to this report.