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This week's Senator Square features guest writers Ananda Campbell and Bridget Gordon-Johnson who explain Monday homeroom academic strategies. Campbell is a CHS Library Media Specialist and Carson City School District Library Coordinator. Gordon is a CHS counselor. This is their report:

Muscle Powered celebrates GivingTuesday by raising funds for our community partner Ron Wood Family Resource Center in Carson City to provide alternative transportation resources to community members in need. We are joining millions around the world participating in the global generosity movement.

This #GivingTuesday, Muscle Powered will inspire generosity by raising funds for the Ron Wood Family Resource Center to provide alternative transportation resources to our community members in need.

Carson High and Douglas High teaming up together is right up there with the appearing of Halley’s Comet. Officially designated 1P/Halley, this is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 year and is the only known short-period comet that is visible to the naked eye from Earth and the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime.

Carson City and Douglas County schools are among a handful of districts in the Silver State with the lowest absenteeism rates in either elementary, middle or high school, according to a report released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Education.

Senior pranks are a common tradition throughout high schools around the country, and CHS is no exception. This year, CHS Seniors definitely kept the tradition going as could be seen by everyone May 31 and again June 1.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Ron Wood Family Resource Center (RWFRC) was established in 1995 through a combination of community efforts. It originally started as a truancy prevention project but quickly grew to become a Family Resource Center and is now a comprehensive source for families to ...

In an effort to showcase the value of coming to school and being on time, Carson Middle School administrators, social workers and safe school professionals have taken a positive approach to motivate students. On Monday, Jan. 8, the first day back from the holidays, students were welcomed by school officials dressed in dinosaur suits holding giant banners and delivering cheers and “High Fives.”

The Ron Wood Center in Carson City is distributing their annual Christmas dinner food baskets this week throughout Carson City. The baskets are being gifted to local foster families and the elderly, as well as to recipients recommended by Juvenile Probation and Safe School Professionals.

Kelly Ranasinghe, JD, senior program attorney for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges will speak on the important issues of domestic child sex trafficking, trauma and victimization at the Soroptimist International Sierra Nevada Region’s Annual Development Retreat to approximately 150 members from Nevada and northern California on July 9th at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa.

The following is from Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong regarding the agency's recent application of a grant to fund a school resource officer for the Carson City School District:

The following statement taken from the Carson High School website: On Jan. 1, 2015 a new state law takes effect for student drivers under the age of 18. Students looking forward to the privilege of driving in the State of Nevada are expected to attend school at least 90 percent of the time and not be considered a “Habitual Truant.”

Carson City Sheriff's deputies arrested a 32-year-old woman at around noon Thursday for five instances of failure to prevent truance, five instances of interfering with pupil attendence at school, and five instances of attendence in public school requirement failures.

A school resource officer was contact by the principal of a local elementary school, who notified him of four children who had been missing from school since the beginning of November, coupled with several reports from a neighbor about children playing outside when they should be attending school.

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s First Lady Kathleen Sandoval is one of only 24 nonprofit leaders in the nation to be selected for the American Express Leadership Academy sponsored in collaboration with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).

By Andrew Doughman / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Legislators would have to attend legislator school under a bill from Speaker John Oceguera, D-Las Vegas.
Assembly Bill 260 would make it mandatory for all new legislators to attend classes before the official start of the legislative session.